1. Preparation is Perspiration
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Listen to a profile of Mikaela Shiffrin, the best Slalom skier in the world.
Now answer these questions.
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She draws in casual viewers and awes the experts.
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There’s something about transcendent talent that causes people to root for it, no matter their allegiances or their usual embrace of the underdog.
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The Olympics are a brief fever dream in the middle of the five-month odyssey of the ski season.
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Shiffrin is a stone-cold killer on snow.
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The Northeast is Shiffrin’s home turf. She lives in Vail, Colorado, but her formative training years were spent on the East Coast.
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She took fifth in the giant slalom, a disappointment. She won the slalom, but by less than a second, which was, by her standards, a narrow margin.
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Shiffrin had a couple of consultations with a psychologist.
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At just sixteen, she became the youngest skier ever to win a U.S. national championship.
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What I saw was a skier who looked flawless and smooth but not revolutionary or enthralling.
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The subtler mechanics of the ski turn are obscure, even to most people who know how to make a good one.
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She’s as stark an example of nurture over nature, of work over talent, as anyone in the world of sports.

