After the most painful winter, the sweetest spring. The eyes of Mikaela Shiffrin they shine brighter than the object she proudly displays. But even what she wears on her left hand is no joke: a dazzling diamond ring that triggers reactions everywhere, not only in the traveling ski company, but also in the world that intersects sport and entertainment in the United States, from the athletics champion Allyson Felix to the influencer and former national gymnastics team “Livvy” Dunne. In the post shared, the greatest skier of all time before her is hugging her boyfriend Aleksander Aamodt Source in the streets of Innsbruck, in front of the St. Anna column. Then immediately afterwards she is sitting in a club, in the already famous photo of the ring taken with the Norwegian’s smartphone. Immediately afterwards, Kilde appears with the dazed look that she often shows in the videos posted by a couple who are very active on social media. Again, Mikaela’s ring is in the foreground. The announcement had been in the air for some time but never made public so clearly, and you don’t need to rely on a series of emoticons to guess that the wedding is approaching.
The best choice after a very hard winter
Thus ends a very hard winter for both of them, especially for Kilde who finally appears with the same funny expressions he showed before the terrible accident in Wengen. When she risked her safety, and as Mikaela said “in the first eight hours after the accident it was a life or death situation”. Even now no one knows if and how Kilde will be able to return to the World Cup. But the American also paid her tribute, with the accident in Cortina which cost her the loss of an overall World Cup in which she was in command: she only returned at the end of the season, to win the last 2 slaloms and the specialty trophy, reaching 97 cup victories. But from the most difficult winter for both, came the awareness that they had won as a couple, even spending weeks in the same hospital following different rehabilitation paths.
Mikaela Shiffrin: “I’m finally back, losing the Cup was heartbreaking. My boyfriend Kilde risked death”
by Mattia Chiusano
When they wrote: “We make ourselves better”
Shiffrin and Kilde met like everyone in the White Circus in a ski camp, but for more than three years they have also been united in life. For her, he was a fundamental figure in going through the mourning of her father Jeff, who died in a domestic accident at the beginning of 2020. It seems incredible now, but the American left the Beijing Olympics without even a medal. Yet in that period the company of her boyfriend was precious, which was summarized in a post: “We make ourselves better”. When Mikaela reached the record of 86 victories last year Ingemar Stenmark, Aleksander Aamodt wrote: “The greatest skier (and human being) of all time. You are spectacular Mikaela!!!”.
Johnson: “Kilde do you want to ski for the USA?”
The marriage between two sporting greats has sparked reactions of happiness, but also jokes about the immense talent that can be condensed in the couple’s children. There are those who instead provoke with a smile, putting their finger on the wound: “So @akilde you want to ski for us?” jokes but not so much a teammate of Mikaela, the downhill skier Breezy Johnson. Because this year the Norwegian super team was first troubled by the withdrawal of one of its stars, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, then by his decision to race for Brazil next year. After a long and unhappy dispute with the federation regarding sponsorships. Who knows if the thought has ever crossed one of the symbols of Scandinavian sport, also dealing with the same organisation: surely the temptation could be stronger now.
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– 2024-04-13 16:58:34
