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Biography Flash: Mikaela Shiffrin's High-Stakes Return to Super G Racing After Two Years

Biography Flash: Mikaela Shiffrin's High-Stakes Return to Super G Racing After Two Years

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Mikaela Shiffrin has spent the past few days balancing the intensity of a comeback, the grind of an Olympic season, and the emotional weight of the wider ski community. According to Sportskeeda, she is hours away from her **first Super G start in two years**, racing today in St. Moritz with bib 31, a key test of whether she will fully re-embrace speed events ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics. In an Instagram story quoted by Sportskeeda, she admitted she is excited, nervous, and almost speechless about returning to the Super G start gate, calling it a big step and hoping it still feels as exhilarating as it did before her injury layoff.

That return to Super G is not just a schedule note; it is potentially biographical gold. Shiffrin has largely avoided speed races since her crash in Cortina last year, when she stepped back from downhill and Super G to prioritize health and technical events. Now, as Olympics.com and Sportskeeda report, she has openly framed St. Moritz as a small but crucial window to see where she stands in Super G and whether it is even realistic to qualify for the discipline at the next Games. If it is not, she has said she will narrow her focus to slalom and giant slalom, meaning the outcome of this St. Moritz experiment could shape the final arc of her Olympic career.

Recent form supports the idea that she is still very much the sport’s dominant force. Sportskeeda notes she opened the 2025–26 season with her 104th World Cup victory on November 30 in the Copper Mountain slalom, winning by a commanding 1.57 seconds. She followed that with two giant slalom starts in Mont Tremblant, finishing sixth and fourth, solid, if not vintage, results as she builds into the winter. NPR recently highlighted that she has already **qualified for the upcoming Winter Olympics**, underscoring her status as the central American star of Alpine skiing.

Off the race hill, Shiffrin’s public presence in the past few days has been defined by empathy as much as ambition. The Times of India reports that after Swiss two-time Olympic champion Michelle Gisin suffered a terrifying crash at over 110 kilometers per hour in downhill training at St. Moritz, Shiffrin joined Lindsey Vonn in posting messages of support on Instagram, writing that she was thinking of Gisin as the injured racer was airlifted and moved to a Zurich clinic. Commentators have noted how the incident inevitably echoes Shiffrin’s own high-speed crashes and subsequent surgeries, something she has candidly discussed in past Players Tribune essays about self-doubt and recovery. While not a new revelation, her willingness to show public solidarity connects directly to the more vulnerable, reflective phase of her public biography.

As of the last 24 hours, the major Shiffrin headlines are tightly focused on that St. Moritz Super G start, her return to speed, and what it means for her Olympic program. Any speculation that she will fully load her 2026 Olympic schedule with multiple speed events remains just that, speculation, until she and her team see how she responds in today’s race and subsequent training.

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