Mikaela Shiffrin Can Go from Teen Phenom to Winter Olympic Legend in Pyeongchang

Source: Bleacher Report:

February 9, 2018 at 16:21

But Shiffrin has a shot. That's because no one else in the world is so versatile at mastering all of skiing's challenges.

emember how much you saw of Michael Phelps during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro? Prepare to be similarly inundated with a nonstop blizzard of news about Mikaela Shiffrin, who may be just as dominant at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

That's how imposing the 22-year-old alpine skier from Colorado looms as she takes aim at a historic gold medal haul.

For the next two weeks, Shiffrin will be compared to America's most prolific winners from the Winter Games, including speedskater Eric Heiden, whose five individual gold medals in 1980 has long been considered impossible to duplicate on the unpredictable surfaces of snow and ice.

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