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Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have officially put an end to months of speculation about their wedding, reassuring fans that marriage is very much in their future. In a light-hearted and candid episode of the podcast What’s the Point? released on November 4, the alpine skiing power couple addressed the constant questions surrounding their engagement timeline head-on. “We’re going to get married, guys—calm down,” Shiffrin said with a laugh, while her fiancé, Norwegian speed star Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, couldn’t resist a playful compliment: “Nobody is perfect, but she is pretty close.” The two Olympic champions got engaged in April…

Two of alpine skiing’s biggest stars, Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, will go head-to-head this weekend as the women’s speed season kicks off with back-to-back downhills and a Super-G in St. Moritz (Dec. 12–14), a critical early stop on the road to the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics. At 41, Lindsey Vonn continues to defy age and gravity. The American speed legend, who returned to World Cup racing last season after a five-year retirement, opened her 2025-26 campaign in style with a silver medal in the Super-G finals at Sun Valley — becoming the oldest woman ever to podium at the elite…

Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have become one of the most admired couples in winter sports, but their journey from casual acquaintances to engaged partners took nearly a decade—and was forged in some of the darkest moments of their lives. The two alpine skiing stars first met around 2015 at a World Cup event. Kilde, ever the bold Norwegian, broke the ice with a simple “Hi” and quickly sent the first friend request on social media. Later that season he asked Shiffrin out. Her playful rejection—“I thought I was being cute,” she now laughs—was taken as a polite no,…

American alpine skiing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin has opened up about the unique strength of her relationship with Norwegian skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, emphasizing how their shared experiences in the high-pressure world of competitive skiing bring them closer. Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and one of the most dominant athletes in the sport, and Kilde, a top contender in men’s speed events with multiple World Cup wins and Olympic medals, have been a power couple since reconnecting in 2021. Their romance blossomed during challenging times—Shiffrin grieving the loss of her father, and Kilde recovering from a serious knee injury. The…

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has stared down the Streif in Kitzbühel at 140 km/h with broken bindings, raced with a half-healed shoulder, and won World Cup downhills by hundredths of a second. But nothing, he says, has ever made his heart pound like the moment he asked Mikaela Shiffrin to marry him. In a candid interview released Wednesday on the Norwegian podcast “I det lange løp,” the 33-year-old speed star finally opened up about the proposal that took place last April in the Dolomites, an event the couple had kept almost entirely private until now. “Downhill starts? Scary, yes. But you…

Four words from Mikaela Shiffrin just turned the alpine skiing world upside down.When a fan asked on Instagram if she would race the St. Moritz super-G this weekend — the same races where Lindsey Vonn will make her long-awaited return — Shiffrin replied with a simple, loaded “we’ll see!!” That’s it. That’s all it took. In an instant, a dream matchup that once felt impossible suddenly feels very real: Shiffrin vs. Vonn, technical queen against speed legend, on the steep, storied Engadin slopes where both have written history. Shiffrin has not started a World Cup super-G since December 2023 in…

Norwegian alpine skiing star Aleksander Aamodt Kilde officially completed one of the most challenging chapters of his career on Sunday, returning to World Cup competition nearly 23 months after a horrific crash in Wengen that left his future in the sport uncertain. The 33-year-old speed specialist raced in the men’s Super G at the Stifel Copper Cup, marking his first World Cup start since January 2024. Kilde, who suffered a dislocated shoulder and a deep calf laceration with nerve damage in the Lauberhorn downhill crash, crossed the finish line to warm applause and an emotional embrace from fiancée Mikaela Shiffrin.…

In the high-stakes world of alpine skiing, where speeds exceed 80 mph and a single miscalculation can end a career, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Mikaela Shiffrin have not only conquered the slopes but also each other’s hearts. The Norwegian downhill specialist and American slalom queen, engaged since 2023, have become synonymous with excellence on the mountain. But off the snow, their relationship stands as a testament to mutual support amid adversity, as Kilde poignantly reflected in a recent interview: “We have been a rock for each other.” Kilde, 33, opened up about the depth of their connection during an exclusive…

In a heartwarming episode of Mikaela Shiffrin’s podcast What’s The Point with Mikaela, the alpine skiing superstar and her fiancé, Norwegian racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, finally addressed the elephant in the room that’s been buzzing among fans since their engagement last April: the wedding. “Let me tell you that people want to know, when is the wedding?” Shiffrin said with a laugh during the candid conversation, released just days after her emotional 104th World Cup win here in Colorado. “We’re going to get married guys, calm down. It’s gonna happen. Just, there’s just like a couple things that are going…

Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the World Cup top 15 for the first time since her near-fatal crash last season, delivering a sixth-place finish in giant slalom and a tied-fourth in slalom over an emotional weekend in Tremblant. The results, while short of the podium, represent one of the clearest signs yet that the most successful alpine skier in history is regaining full command of her craft more than a year after a gate stake pierced her abdomen at Killington, tearing muscle and stopping millimetres from her spine. “I still get some pictures sometimes,” Shiffrin said of the flashbacks, “but I’m…