Mikaela Shiffrin has already rewritten alpine skiing. Now the calendar is pointing at the next chapter.
The 2027 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, run February 1–14. For Shiffrin, that date is no longer distant. After a 2025–26 season that delivered Olympic slalom gold in Cortina, a record-tying sixth overall World Cup crystal globe, a ninth slalom globe, and her 110th World Cup win, the American is already on snow and talking about what still interests her.
That interest is no longer only slalom.
In her late-July YouTube episode Why I’m Still Skiing (And What’s Next), Shiffrin made the point clearly: she believes she has reached her ceiling in slalom speed. The curiosity now sits in giant slalom and super-G — the events she wants to keep improving. The 2026–27 World Cup calendar gives her the platform. Killington opens the North American block at the end of November. Beaver Creek brings women’s speed races in December. Then Europe, then Crans-Montana.
She is already in the southern-hemisphere block. In late August she trained at La Parva, Chile, with U.S. speed teammates. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was in Chile at the same time — one of the rare windows the couple actually share. Shiffrin has said they get only about five weeks a year together. Wedding planning has not started. She is not stressed about that.
Last weekend she was in a cowboy hat at the country wedding of her first friend, Alex Leever. Kilde stayed in camp. She posted the photos anyway: “10/10 would recommend.”
That mix — elite preparation, limited personal time, no rush on the next life milestone — is the current Shiffrin story. The medals are already historic. Three Olympic golds. Eight World Championship golds. Six overall globes, tied with Annemarie Moser-Pröll. The question now is whether she can add World Championship hardware in the events she has decided are still unfinished.
Crans-Montana will not wait. Neither, it seems, will she. The first World Cup races of the new season arrive in late October. From there the line to February in Switzerland is short. Shiffrin has nothing left to prove and everything left to explore. That is usually when she is most dangerous.
