What began as a near-miss dinner in Chile a decade ago has snowballed into alpine skiing’s ultimate love story, and Mikaela Shiffrin just served the juiciest chapter on her brand-new podcast, What’s the Point.
In the premiere episode dropped October 29, the five-time overall World Cup champion grills her fiancé, Norwegian speed king Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, for 90 laugh-filled minutes. The bombshell? Shiffrin’s cheeky admission that she once believed the Viking heartthrob had ghosted her after their first awkward meal.
Picture this: two future Olympic medalists, one empty hotel restaurant, and zero game.
“We already had dinner,” Shiffrin quipped when Kilde later slid into her Facebook DMs. He read it as a polite brush-off; she spent weeks convinced the brown-cheese connoisseur had vanished into the fjords.
Fast-forward ten years: the pair who survived misread messages now share recovery rooms, podium kisses, and a podcast mic. Kilde, still rebuilding from his terrifying 2024 Wengen crash, credits Shiffrin’s midnight panic-attack pep talks for keeping him grounded. “You calmed me down,” he told her, voice cracking.
Between flirty jabs and raw injury talk, the couple shut down trolls urging Shiffrin to “retire and have kids.” Her comeback? “Trust me, that’s very enticing; but we’re not done here.” Kilde echoed with a grin: “For sure not done.
With Shiffrin chasing a sixth crystal globe and Kilde gunning for a December downhill comeback, their podcast proves the real victory lap is the one they’re running together, one inside joke at a time.
