She looked up to her in the past. She took it as a driving engine. She admired not only her skiing skills, but also her mental strength.
15.12.2025 17:35
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American skier Mikaela Shiffrin and Tina Weirather in a 2019 file photo.
“Lindsey is one of the best athletes in the world. I watched her as a girl. Now I’m in the World Cup and she’s still one of the best.
Hats off. He is a true legend of our sport,” said Mikaela Shiffrin some time ago.
The most successful competitor of the World Cup in alpine skiing gradually broke the records of 41-year-old Vonn.
Both gave the impression that they would enjoy each other’s successes and breaking records. However, their former rival Tina Weirather broke the rumors about the idyll between the two stars of American skiing with a single sentence.
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“Currently, the reality is that everyone wants to win and they don’t want the other to succeed,” she told the Swiss Blick.
In the past, the former representative of Liechtenstein was one of the best racers in speed disciplines.
The thirty-six-year-old native of Vaduz – the capital of a small principality in Western Europe – explained the whole situation.
According to her, Shiffrin and Vonn’s relationship broke down at the other world championships in February of this year in Saalbach, Austria.
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Forty-one-year-old Vonn wanted to join the team combination with Shiffrin. She did not respond to her request. She ended up choosing Breezy Johns and together they won the gold.
However, Vonn dismissed these theories and suggested that she was disappointed by something other than Shiffrin herself.
“Our relationship is not bad at all. At that time it was just a matter of bad communication with the team, not with her,” she explained to the daily Blick.
