Moving Right Along, Episode 2 | Coming Home

Moving Right Along...to Killington, Vermont, for the HERoic Killington Cup Presented by Stifel. I always love coming back to the States, and especially Killington, for this race. The East Coast holds a special place in my heart from all of the memories I have when I was younger, and over the years growing up here. Racing here is such a special vibe-the crowd brings so much atmosphere-something different from what we see anywhere else on the World Cup. I had such amazing memories at Killington, specifically ever since the first time I skied on the Superstar trail, and got my first waffle...so it was really great to be back "home."
Not only did I have a chance to spend time with my family and my team for Thanksgiving, but my aunts and uncles also came to watch the race. It was such a blast to celebrate Thanksgiving with my brother Taylor, sister-in-law Kristi, and my mom. Traci made an amazing dinner for us, and it was just...special.
This year at Killington, my biggest takeaway wasn't another victory, but-perhaps more importantly-that the purest and most wonderful part of the sport are the fans that bring the excitement and cheer no matter who is racing, simply because they love the sport and are so excited to see racing in and of itself. My favorite part of these home races is seeing the kids and their excitement to witness a World Cup in the United States. I can't stress the importance of World Cups on home soil enough-it brings awareness to this sport we all love so much, but also gives kids a chance to dream and realize this could be a possibility for their future if they keep working and setting their goals high and doing everything they can to achieve it.
Directed By: Mike Dawson
Produced By: Megan Harrod and Kilian Albrecht
Edited By: Dana Willax
Presented By: Adidas, Barilla, Atomic, Oakley, and IKON Pass
Thanks To: skiandsnowboard.live (if you live in the States, check out skiandsnowboard.live for interviews, race replays, and more)
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[@grape196]

From Russia with love! ♥️

[@kenludwig6547]

Your greatness rises above your skiing. Your kindness, sportsmanship, resilience, toughness and inclusiveness are wonderful parts of your character. Heading toward 86, God Bless.

[@andreasnordin9023]

Great content. As a true snowgeek following all skiraces I believe this kind of content is really positive for the sport. Thanks and have a nice 2023. Cheers from Sweden.

[@edoardoguidorizzi905]

82 WC WINS 👑 Any adjective would not be enough to describe what you are doing on the slopes, as it is something we have never seen in the history of alpine skiing. So just thank you Mikaela for the show you put on every time you ski down a race course. Thank you for teaching us to dream the impossible and thank you for showing us how to keep the flame alive even in the most difficult times. I'm so proud of you, legend. Like you nobody else 🤍 TO INFINITY AND BEYOND ✨

[@speedkingz]

Queen ⚡

[@andreacalligaro6440]

*83 😉

[@christiankatzel9598]

@@andreacalligaro6440 *85 😅

[@ann-kathrinfischer6763]

@@christiankatzel9598 86

[@KathleenOlssonNelsonDr]

So hip! Loving the peek behind the scenes and the awesomeness of Killington venue. Especially the fans! This series you are creating is such a pleasure and joy to experience through your eyes and actions. Thank you soooooo much for all these good vibes. Congratulations on World Cup win #80. Mikaela, you are truly in a league of your own. Inspiring & greatness is exemplified by you. 👏💐❤⛷🏆

[@markgibson9025]

Thanks for this, and thanks for putting it on YT rather than a paid channel. Congrats on another unbelievable season thus far, happy new year!

[@mikaelashiffrin]

Thank you for saying this...accessibility is so important, and we - as an industry - need to do better in order for this sport to thrive for generations to come!! Thank you for your support!

[@gw5877]

Looks like every day is a full rich day during the WC season. Ski good, ski fast!

[@cryptidian3530]

You've been my favourite skier since 2015 and you just kept on crushing it, year after year. And I know in my heart that your father is watching over you, like a hand on your shoulder each time you ski down the slopes, sharing your happiness each time you have a great race and comforting you when things don't go the way you planned it. Keep up the great work and stay true to yourself because that's the version of you we love the most! Greetings from Slovenia, Europe! - Tilen

[@johnddwyer]

The videography is well done. Very inspirational as well.

[@mikaelashiffrin]

Thank you!!

[@grape196]

True! 👏

[@coolgabe64]

Great job bagging 122 WC points in Cortina. Now you have over 500 points lead in the overall, which I suspect is your ultimate goal. Will be watching the Kronplatz shenanigans. :)))) ... Oh, and Aleks was awesome.... and not just winning on the second day but for the save of the year. Maybe the decade.

[@petermihacerar1137]

Best living being on skies! That is how it is!!!

[@W.I.Tschuikow]

Shiffrin is just the GOAT

[@markeaton2003]

She is so great. The eagle soars, and always rises to the top of the totem pole. Lifes challenges can sometimes set us back in different ways and bring us into self doubt. With Gods help, the true champions rise above that doubt and embrace their knowing. Way to go Mikaela, you really deseve it. Have fun and enjoy each memorable race, and day.

[@gup8175]

Congratulations on #82! WOOOOooo!!

[@alexhagenhofer]

Great Video! Mikaela is my fav. alpine Ski Racer 😊🔝

[@laurabauerl09]

Thank you for this amazing video🥰

[@martinabroskova6084]

Happy New Year, Miki. I was in Semmering to watch the race, even though I'm a fan of Petra, I have to admit that your skiing was amazing, congratulations on the hat-trick☺️🤩❤️ Greetings from Slovakia 🇸🇰😉

[@paulik7913]

Simply The Best!

[@quadlutz6515]

Thank you THANK YOU for this kind of content and for contributing into making such a wonderful sport more mainstream. Congratulations on the last few days’ winS. it’s always a wonder to see you ski 🫶

[@robertkilbourn5402]

It's great to see the more personal side of your life outside the TV interviews. Congratulations on a fantastic end to '22 on the slopes and best wishes for a fabulous, happy and healthy new year! ✨️💖

[@paulmadden1458]

Great videography, immersive and engaging. Shares a little personality, a lot of hard work and some goofiness!

[@tomsimon1315]

I hope you will not retire for a long time, because there will not be an other racer to watch performing on your level, maybe forever. You cannot improve on perfection. Thank you. ❤

[@annarabner]

You're such an inspiration. Thanks for sharing. Love it 😍

[@nelakoziskova9654]

What a great thing to do! You are a legend!

[@darionoti2762]

You are the best. Thanks for everything🎉

[@gabrielenegri6495]

It's really a pleasure to get up at morning and see her skiing, so talented and elegant that sometimes she make me get goosebumps. Hope to see her racing live these years

[@millindajohnson7276]

Happy new year. Thanks for making ski racing so much fun to watch. Because of you I’m addicted. Congrats on #80! Can’t wait to watch the rest of the wins to come.

[@tatianakondratieva7074]

Thank you for this kind of content 🙌🤗. Happy New Year . Best wishes

[@raphael8546]

Wow 🤩 These vlogs are so interesting and well produced. Thank you

[@paulangeloff400]

Thanks for this Mikaela. My Wife and I love to go ski after watching you race. It’s inspiring how graceful you are. Good luck on reaching the magic number 😉

[@asjamujkanovic5693]

Im so proud of how far you’ve come.Never forget we all love you xoxo❤️🫂

[@lisagrechhamer1994]

Great Movie! Like it! Greetings from Austria 🇺🇲🤝🏼🇦🇹

[@waynewilliams839]

Fun to watch the worlds best skier! Thanks

[@emamunozropotica4180]

So happy for you!!!!!!!

[@nellysch2212]

When I was in 6th grade in 2014 we got to write an essay about our role model. I wrote about you and I actually did the same five years later when we got kind of the same assignment in english class ( to be fair this one was a bit deeper than back in 6th grade lol) But what I want say is that seeing you racing whilst growing up really shaped me and I'm beyond grateful that I was able to do so. Thank you so much, it's really inspirational what you do, both on and off the slopes! Wish you all the best for the future!

[@ilianastoeva1328]

Thank you, happy New Year and new successes! My respects and love!

[@gwbaker]

Beautifully done. Perfectly captures the essence of the experience and the people living it. Formula 1 could learn from this. "Drive to Survive" is not an authentic view. And you, Mika, are such a class act quite apart from your obvious skillset. God speed!

[@mikaelashiffrin]

Wow, that's such an amazing compliment - thank you!!

[@joycedickinson9870]

Great production on the greatest skier and race series!

[@thordis9213]

Thank you for your inspiration!🎉❤

[@HansDeLuxe]

Can‘t wait to see what‘s comming Next ✌️

[@pallala85]

Wow Miki! It’s an amazing series! 🤩I love your way of interacting with fans, especially kids, to make them live the dream of meeting their idol! The moments with your family are so intense too 😊 They have all the reasons to be VERY PROUD of you, as skier but above all for the person you are. Your best win is to be always sunny and funny. Thanks a lot for these little clips of you. 😊Congrats again for your latest successes in Semmering and Happy New Year!! I really hope to see you in Cortina, it will be one of my best moment ever! 🤗

[@coolgabe64]

Awesome New Years present for us. Thank You.

[@martinpeter38]

ITS very nice, that you make at now!! AND amazing Giveaway

[@auroremouron2105]

Amazing 🥶

[@barryharding861]

Congrats on win number 83! 🎿

[@gup8175]

Congratulations on the GS and slalom wins at Semmering! Happy New Year!!

[@lucabarelli259]

Thanks Miki for sharing your path and your emotions with us!!

[@Von45Rose]

Wishing you a wonderful and happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉 Really enjoying your video content thank you!

[@annaa1207]

The best ❤️

[@beatricebachl06]

This ist a really cool Video

[@Ari-by7bo]

The best 💪

[@runesjberg508]

Happy new year 🥳🥳

[@albertolondon]

Thank you and happy new year! Love hearing your perspective on the fans.

[@SurferBlondie13]

Congratulations on your 82nd World Cup win 🎊 🎉❤❤❤ Keep going 🎿

[@NATAPRASHK]

Great videos! Good luck on the slopes and further victories! 🎉

[@andreasnordin9023]

We are talking about a living legend in M Shiffrin, but maybe more important, a true rolemodel for the young.

[@lew07lew]

These are such awesome videos loved them so far.

[@alexandrabn4073]

Love you Mikaela. ❤️

[@edoardoguidorizzi905]

Love this series soooo much. Thank you Miki for sharing these moments with us. And big congrats for your latest achievements, which are simply amazing. Also, Happy New Year to you and your family! I wish you all a healthy, lovely and successfull 2023 :)

[@mikaelashiffrin]

Thank you so much!!

[@davidiverson5928]

Mikaela's senior quote in her high school yearbook is "dream of living the life that you are actually living today." -Alan Watts. I've never had a chance to sit and discuss that choice with Mikaela. It's definitely a fascinating quote for her to pick. Here it is in a more extended form. "I’m not trying to prove it, I’m just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. “So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream, and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time, or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. “And after several nights, of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say ‘Well, that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control. Where something is going happen to me that I don’t know what it’s going to be.’ And you would dig that and come out of that and say ‘Wow, that was a close shave, wasn’t it?’ And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. “And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of the choices you would have."

[@russellhawkins366]

Thanks for that. Interestingly I had a dream where I died. And on the other side had a chat with God and I said: “Wow! Thank you God, that was an absolutely fantastic life, it was truly awesome.” And then God said a few things to me, and I was rather dumbstruck. My next words were: “Oh no, I wish I could go back and give it another go.” And then I woke up..... so was able to do just that. That one dream changed the course of my life - and is Exactly in line with what you’ve presented in your comment.....

[@janmagician]

Soo good content thx 🔥🔥

[@robadair]

I’m not one for superlatives but M has to be the greatest of all time

[@jaimecarrillo5688]

Hola mikaela felicitaciones de chile .saludos de el colorado

[@coolgabe64]

I just want to add after the first Zagreb race that the English language ran out of adjectives describing what are you doing right now. There are just no words left and we are the privileged ones who can actually witness this.

[@mikaelashiffrin]

Thank you so much. Means a lot. 🙏

[@viktoriakordosova2260]

❤

[@marcbonderer8878]

🔥🔥

[@danielistvanszabo4779]

GSOAT

[@coolgabe64]

I'm trying to say something after Kranjska Gora but I just can't.... That second run is for the ages.

[@mikaelashiffrin]

I feel the same way. Thank you so much!

[@superdude3112]

7:10 I've never heard anyone booing at a world cup race. seems like the crowd is very sportsmanlike. I personally always ring a cowbell or whack my poles together for whoever's racing

[@mikaelashiffrin]

Killington fans cheer for everyone!! Sometimes when we're racing in other countries, the fans aren't as sportsmanlike.

[@camrynwirth9769]

Taylor was my coach when I was in 5th grade. Feels weird seeing him again 6 years later

[@mikaelashiffrin]

Small world!

[@camrynwirth9769]

@@mikaelashiffrin truly is. I hope he’s doing well.

[@joseduran1035]

See you in Soldeu.

[@gregbrechelt2295]

I draw personality similarities to Katelyn Tuohy, it would be wonderful one day to see these two sitting down together and sharing their thoughts, I reckon you would really be a brilliant influence for katelyn especially with your work ethic.

[@lukestevenson9900]

🗣🐐

[@bbreidt9353]

👍🏼

[@SteggiMc]

You're beautiful. Obviously you're smart. And I can always tell when you're sad, because you hide behind your defiance when you are. When you're happy, all of you is happy. Even your hair. You don't have a mean bone in your body, and I thought they didn't make them like that any more. You're funny. When you listen, you look interested. You're kind. And you wear your heart on your sleeve, which can be terribly intimidating. MM

[@albertofoltran222]

Beautiful lady and super fenomenal skier 🫶

[@rakovinak]

Mikaela is the GOAT 🥇