Mikaela Shiffrin didn't want to slow down, even after the race was over. Having just beaten her biggest slalom rival in a women's World Cup night race on Tuesday, the American ski star was still in a hurry — to get in touch with her boyfriend Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who was recovering from surgery. "Now, I just want to call Alex.
He should be trying to go sleep soon now. Just checking on him," Shiffrin said after sending her partner a text message from her phone.
Shiffrin celebrated an emotional win, edging out Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova in another gripping duel of their ongoing slalom rivalry.
It was Shiffrin's 94th career win and came nine days after she didn't finish the previous slalom in Slovenia while battling a cold, and two days after she visited her Kilde in a hospital in Switzerland following the Norwegian skier's crash in a downhill, in which he suffered a dislocated shoulder and a cut in his calf. "It's just emotional.