Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin has stepped off the racecourse and into the studio with the premiere of Faster.Always Rapid Fire, a new interview series presented by Atomic Skiing. The bite-sized debut episode puts Shiffrin in the host’s chair opposite her fiancé, Norwegian speed star Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, and opens with the question every skier secretly loves: “What’s your first memory on skis?”
Kilde, 33, recounts a classic Nordic vignette—age two, plastic skis clipped to moon boots, towed behind his father on a frozen lake outside Oslo. “I don’t remember falling,” he laughs. “Only the wind and the rope pulling me forward.” The exchange sets the tone for a 12-minute sprint through Kilde’s greatest downhill tracks (Kitzbühel’s Streif tops the list), the teammate he’d trust on a desert island (Atomic stablemate Marco Odermatt), and the childhood idol whose poster still hangs in his parents’ garage—Kjetil André Aamodt.
Shiffrin, 30, interjects with the precision of a slalom pole: “So basically you’ve been going Mach 1 since preschool.” The chemistry—playful, insider, and unfiltered—offers fans a rare backstage pass to the World Cup circus.
Available now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, Faster.Always Rapid Fire promises weekly lightning rounds with the sport’s biggest names. Episode two drops next Friday; Shiffrin has teased only that the guest “once beat me by 0.02 and still owes me coffee.”
Atomic Skiing, the Austrian brand that outfits both hosts, underwrites the series as part of its #weareskiing campaign. Listeners can expect 10–15 minute bursts of gear talk, race war stories, and the occasional relationship roast—no gates, no timers, just pure downhill banter.
Stream the premiere today and find out why Kilde insists the only thing faster than his Kitzbühel run is Shiffrin’s follow-up question.
