Mikaela Shiffrin ready to ski race again, announces when she’ll be back
Alessandro Trovati
Ski race fans can rejoice because Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin has announced when she’ll be back on the slopes competing.
Shiffrin went on the TODAY show Thursday morning, officially announcing she will be returning to World Cup ski racing after her November 30 crash in a Giant slalom race at Killington, Vermont.
The next stop on the FIS Alpine World Cup circuit for the 2025 season is at Courchevel, France and Shiffrin is eyeing her return to its course, one in which she has seven victories at.
The ever happy and sprite Shiffrin posted a short video on her social media platforms announcing her plan to start racing January 30 at the World Cup course in Courchevel, France in the Alps.
“I’m actually going to be heading over to Europe in the next couple of days to race my first World Cup in Courchevel,” she said on air to Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin.
Shiffrin also posted a teaser video on her social media platforms, like X, teasing to fans she’s of to Europe soon and left a message at the end of the video saying, “Courchevel 1/30…See you soon.”
Courchevel • 1/30 pic.twitter.com/rIaDYgd0yT
— Mikaela Shiffrin ⛷️ (@MikaelaShiffrin) January 23, 2025
Shiffrin said she’ll be dealing with the injury for the rest of the season, but she’s been able to build up her strength again and feels she is in a good place physically yet will be working back into the full rhythms of ski racing preparation and racing as the season continues.
Shiffrin said she was able to get some ski race practice done in some Giant slalom gates Monday while on home snow at Beaver Creek.
Shiffrin has not skied much over the last seven weeks and said her mental preparedness is progressing ahead of her return.
Shiffrin has some work to do to stay in the hunt for any potential World Cup globes in any of the disciplines this season too, let alone the illustrious victory No. 100.
Shiffrin currently ranks 16th with 245 FIS points in the overall World Cup standings, 9th in Slalom with 200 points and 26th in Giant slalom with 45 points.
Fellow female U.S. Ski Team members Lauren Macuga and Paula Moltzan have more overall points than Shiffrin, and as Shiffrin said to Guthrie and Melvin “I’m coming back into competitions with the best athletes in the world and trying to hold my own against that with them in top form and I’m coming back from ripping my oblique.”
(Contact Denver Gazette Digital Strategist Jonathan Ingraham at jonathan.ingraham@denvergazettedev.gazette.com or on X at @Skingraham and Instagram at @Skingraham311.)





