Congrats mikaela! Your dad would be smiling on you for that win! ❤️ go usa!

People don’t comprehend the intense level of drive, focus, commitment, passion and emotion that goes into being this good, and how difficult it is to contain and control all that energy. You can’t really understand it until you actually work with such a person and frankly not everybody can even deal with being in a close working relationship with someone on that level. Her emotions after this race give a small glimpse of the intensity of it all.

82/100's is a lifetime in Ski Racing !!

Grazie per essere tornata, grazie per avercela fatta, grazie per il tuo coraggio grazie per il tuo esempio, grazie per il tuo contributo per rendere questo mondo migliore, grazie per la tua umanità...E grazie per avercela fatta. Tvb

The courage and willingness to show herself is inspiring. Thanks for posting this!

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Huge respect for Mikaela! Nice analysis, too. Thanks for posting.

Courchevel = Curved shovel -- Swedish / Sioux Indian / Frenchy. Those increments, of her skyae(skis), chattered is, her body mass-- in control of, vectored index-- really nice Mikaela, Pk loves it!

Best Ski Racer in the world ...

There are a couple things I focus on predominantly watching Mikaela that accentuate and illustrate just what makes her impossible to compare to anyone in the technical disciplines when she is REALLY in the zone (imho) except perhaps Marcel Hirscher off the top of my head. The first point is not only her amazing balance, but the facility and looseness she combines it with; allowing her to get more snap and acceleration from the ski than any female skier I’ve ever seen. One of my strongest memories of watching her first couple seasons on the WC tour was exclaiming, “Holy s***! She looks like she came out of the Austrian program...but has the same balance as Marlies Schild!” (at the end of Schild’s career as the “queen of slalom”). My next focus is on her initiation. Her transition between turns is SO perfect it tends to just look like an afterthought, something after closely analyzing WC video for 3 decades I can say is also unmatched in all the women I have seen. In order to keep from writing a dissertation, I will briefly list the last details: one thing you will almost NEVER see Mikaela do is belabor a poorly-executed or off-line turn. She gets off her edges faster than anyone on tour: it is probably THE principal reason even when she makes a big mistake that would ruin any other skier’s run she recovers in ONE OR TWO TURNS and does not continue to bleed time. This is exceedingly rare if not totally unmatched and points to her incomparable focus and mental strength.

@Beat The Clock Thank you so much for posting this and commentating it, and for your sensitivity. Because the race had been postponed a day, I didn't get to see it with commentators, except for Mikaela's run on KZfaq, and they didn't have a lot of technical comments. I'm not a skier and I've only been a fan for a few years, so I still need to hear an expert opinion 😊

It's nice to see her back on top. I worry about her, though. Yes, she's inspirational. But she seemed emotionally fragile even before the tragedy. Now, I can't help but think she is suffering to the point it could overwhelm her. I just hope it has a happy ending.

Great viedeo, „completely dominating the rest of the world“ seems a bit like a reach though. 82 hundredths is a lot, but also Brignone had a pretty big mistake.

Which GS is this? I watched the GS last night I think at Courchevel and she was 4th. It was from a few days ago. Ionly get to watch the races a few days after they happen.

ma basta

I would like you very much even you are working in my morning coffee shop. Your aura is what I like not your brand