Mikaela Shiffrin Fights Back Tears Talking About Her Late Father After Olympic Win

When Mikaela Shiffrin last won an Olympic gold medal, in PyeongChang eight years ago, her father Jeff—known throughout the skiing community for both his unyielding fandom of his phenom daughter and his passion for ski-racing photography, as he shot everyone, not just Mikaela—put his hands on his hat in the South Korea cold. “Oh my God!” he yelled. As the last racer in this giant slalom competition, Italy’s Manuela Moelgg, moved down the mountain, it was becoming more and more apparent that Moegg wouldn’t catch Mikaela’s time...