It’s pressure that comes from people on the outside, from sponsors and media and fans and the like. [From the archives: Mikaela Shiffrin wins women’s slalom gold with style]Which is to say, she recently didn’t feel so confident. But that doesn’t mean Shiffrin can’t feel a bit hemmed in by her circumstance and her status. Shiffrin would ski second-from-last, needing to make up just more than a quarter of a second on Rebensburg. What mattered more was that Mikaela Shiffrin put away the gremlins and goblins in her own brain and skied like she can.

Source: Washington Post November 25, 2017 22:18 UTC