FILE – United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin competes in the women’s combined downhill at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Jeongseon, South Korea, Feb. 22, 2018. Winter Olympians in outdoor sports such as Alpine skiing or snowboarding say the weather can be a key factor in success or failure.
FILE – Course crew are shrouded in snow as they carry ski gates after the women’s giant slalom was postponed due to high winds at the 2018 Winter Olympics at the Yongpyong Alpine Center, Pyeongchang, South Korea, Feb. 12, 2018. Winter Olympians in outdoor sports such as Alpine skiing or snowboarding say the weather can be a key factor in success or failure.
FILE – United States’ Keely Cashman speeds down the slope during the first run of an alpine ski, women’s World Cup giant slalom, in Courchevel, France, Dec. 21, 2021. Winter Olympians in outdoor sports such as Alpine skiing or snowboarding say the weather can be a key factor in success or failure.
FILE – Silver medal winner Mikaela Shiffrin, of the United States, poses during the flower ceremony for the women’s combined at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Jeongseon, South Korea, Feb. 22, 2018. Winter Olympians in outdoor sports such as Alpine skiing or snowboarding say the weather can be a key factor in success or failure.
FILE – Mikaela Shiffrin, of the United States, skies into the finish area after winning the gold medal in the Women’s Giant Slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Feb. 15, 2018. Winter Olympians in outdoor sports such as Alpine skiing or snowboarding say the weather can be a key factor in success or failure.
FILE – Course crew slide slip to the finish area after the women’s giant slalom was postponed due to high winds at the 2018 Winter Olympics at the Yongpyong Alpine Center, Pyeongchang, South Korea, Feb. 12, 2018. Winter Olympians in outdoor sports such as Alpine skiing or snowboarding say the weather can be a key factor in success or failure.
Mikaela Shiffrin describes herself as “super controlling over everything that’s happening in my life,” so the two-time Olympic gold medalist is not all that fond of one particular can’t-do-a-thing-about-it aspect of her chosen sport, Alpine skiing.
“The weather,” she said, “can literally change everything.”
The 26-year-old from Colorado is scheduled to open her Beijing Olympics on Feb. 7 as the defending champion in the giant slalom. A key word there is “scheduled,” because, as Shiffrin experienced at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, nothing is certain when it comes to the vagaries of various elements such as temperature, wind, sunlight or precipitation.
In outdoor events, all of those factors can, and quite often do, alter the competition and the competitors themselves.
“”On a more macro level, it takes a lot of mental effort to be ready to go out and compete in an Olympic event and when … it doesn’t happen … it’s, for sure, stressful and takes energy away from that level. It’s unlike any other sport, in that sense, right?
“There’s just not that many sports that are that affected, and that exposed, by weather, both to affect the outcome of a race and to affect the outcome of an event,” said Mike Day, Shiffrin’s main coach with the U.S. ski team. “It will have a big impact and has had a big impact in the past.”
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