FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

In 85 at Borneo, he won bronze at the World Championships.

It was the first medal an American man ever took at Worlds in a speed event.

He's 5'8 and 175 pounds, which in downhill skiing is small.

And in January of 86, he finished fifth on the strife at Kichwa, the most dangerous downhill course in the world, one day before his 22nd birthday.

[pen scratching] To the slopes.

Mikaela Shiffrin has announced her race schedule for the upcoming Alpine Skiing World Cup season, and her plan is quite a bit different than in years past.

On her podcast, What's the Point with Mikaela Shiffrin, the greatest slalom skier in the sport's history said she's planning for fewer slaloms this season, instead focusing more on giant slalom and super-G.

Her team is calling it the exploration season, with Shiffrin saying, quote, "I've been doing this for 16 years, and my focus has more or less remained very stable.

Um, Well, not in terms of a like weather rolled in and completely changed the game.

Of course it changed, but it wasn't, you know, not like you see if it's an Alpine World Cup and a storm blows in for the last hour or whatever.

Um, yeah.

And I think if you'd asked me, I, I probably would have said that would favor some of the local racers a little more than the way it played out in the end.

And so she was born in 1984 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and began skiing at a young age before making her World Cup debut as a teenager in the year 2000.

And so over a long and decorated career, Vaughn won four FIS Alpine Ski World Cup overall titles and amassed 84 World Cup victories across multiple disciplines.

She ended up being one short of the world record.

for World Cup victories, held by a European male ski racer.