What's the Point with Mikaela Shiffrin
Feb 4, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 15 segments
With the Olympics on the horizon, two-time Olympic Champion and three-time Olympic medalist Mikaela Shiffrin reflects on the journey that brought her to this moment in a special solo episode of…
Mikaela ShiffrinHost
It kind of gives you the shivers right now, like thinking about Where I was last season at this point, trying to return to World Cup racing, right at this period of time, I was trying to get prepared for World Championships and trying to be in a race mentality in Giant Solemn and not succeeding at that.
And in Solemn, it was getting better, but going into the big event being... you know, on a comeback journey, a return from injury journey versus a, you know, we're going to like take this full throttle.
And the rest of the season last year, that was all a different position than I had ever been in.
Now we flash forward to where... where I am, where our team is this year, it's pretty incredible to see, you know, the progress and to be able to look back and compare.
And, you know, I just had my first World Cup podium in GS in over two years.
Because if you asked me last year, I might have said I don't believe that I'll be on the podium again in GS, and I don't even know that I'll be in the top 30.
Athletes bring in all different mentalities, all different shapes and sizes of energy and vibe going into the games.
There's a kind of mentality of being super positive and hyped and wanting to be involved in everything and soaking up every single moment.
You know, there's... there's more of a mentality where you're really like kind of looking for peace, maybe looking for the calm, quiet, focused moments and, you know, trying to live in that space.
And I think that for me is probably a little bit more what I'm gearing towards this time around.
This can be super intense and It can be kind of tough to balance the enjoyment of such a unique event and an incredible event with the sort of underlying current of basically how important performance is when you have you know, medal or bust mentality.
It kind of gives you the shivers right now, like thinking about Where I was last season at this point, trying to return to World Cup racing, right at this period of time, I was trying to get prepared for World Championships and trying to be in a race mentality in Giant Solemn and not succeeding at that.
And in Solemn, it was getting better, but going into the big event being... you know, on a comeback journey, a return from injury journey versus a, you know, we're going to like take this full throttle.
And the rest of the season last year, that was all a different position than I had ever been in.
Now we flash forward to where... where I am, where our team is this year, it's pretty incredible to see, you know, the progress and to be able to look back and compare.
And, you know, I just had my first World Cup podium in GS in over two years.
Because if you asked me last year, I might have said I don't believe that I'll be on the podium again in GS, and I don't even know that I'll be in the top 30.
Athletes bring in all different mentalities, all different shapes and sizes of energy and vibe going into the games.
There's a kind of mentality of being super positive and hyped and wanting to be involved in everything and soaking up every single moment.
You know, there's... there's more of a mentality where you're really like kind of looking for peace, maybe looking for the calm, quiet, focused moments and, you know, trying to live in that space.
And I think that for me is probably a little bit more what I'm gearing towards this time around.
This can be super intense and It can be kind of tough to balance the enjoyment of such a unique event and an incredible event with the sort of underlying current of basically how important performance is when you have you know, medal or bust mentality.
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