OT: Throwback to Olde Coach: Mikaela Shiffrin hits 100

[ThisJustIn]

He'd be kvelling

Shiffrin earns historic 100th World Cup race win

 

[HuskyNan]

She was one of Olde Coach’s students, yes?

 

[BRS24]

NGL, I read this quickly and thought Blakes from Vandy had 100 pts in a game, ROFL

 

[Centerstream]

NGL, I read this quickly and thought Blakes from Vandy had 100 pts in a game, ROFL

Same here.
But then I remembered that Vandy is hosting SoCar today, so..

 

[Blakeon18]

Olde Coach memory here:

He was up at HIS academy in Vermont and one of the coaching staff asked him to check out a
video of Shriffin on a practice run. She was a student there...her age then 13.
Coach watches the video and he told me he started to cry. Reason? He said he had never,ever
seen such beautiful technique from anybody...boy/girl/man/woman.
As he got to know her over her last years at his academy he said her personality and
character were a match for her skiing technique..basically he was just crazy about her.

Best women's skier...of all time...and still at it despite her recent injuries.

 

[Blakeon18]

Uhh...Nan...could you please change my last sentence?

"her" recent injuries.

"my" recent injury was merely from a fall on an Adirondacky snowy,
slippery sidewalk...no big deal for sure.