Like most ski spectators, I was in awe when I saw Mikaela Shiffrin crush the field and win with a never seen before 3:07 second advance on her next competitor.
At the same time, I was thinking that the US Ski Team is remarkable in the way it keeps on winning with lone, isolated athletes, without the broad support of a large team filled with great talents at is the case for most winning ski teams.
Right, American top skiers are lone wolves, like Billy Kid, the Cochran siblings, the Mahre twins, Tamara McKinney, Bill Johnson, Daron Rahlves, Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn, Ted Ligety and today's prodigy, Mikaela Shiffrin, to cite the most recent and stunning examples.
That this country can produce extraordinary skiers without a strong core team, is both stunning and perplexing to me. Can someone explain it?
Sunday, November 29, 2015
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