Amidst Injury Challenges, Mikaela Shiffrin’s Boyfriend Aleksander Kilde Reveals His Downhill ‘Inspection Routine’

The complexity of downhill skiing reached a new height last month when even a legend like Mikaela Shiffrin couldn’t avoid its obvious dangers. With a record 95 World Cup match wins already in her career, Shiffrin faced a challenge navigating the Olympia delle Tofane course, resulting in a fall and a sore left leg. Fortunately, she avoided an ACL rupture. However, her boyfriend, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, was not as fortunate. He is still recovering from a downhill injury sustained in Eugene last month.

So in a situation like this, a specialist’s guidance is the most needed. Eventually, Aleksander turned up as that specialist to share his view on the downhill skiing part. 

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde pens down his take on the downhill inspection 

After Mikaela Shiffrin’s accident in that Italian course, USA team HC Paul Kristofic argued about the high-speed landing. He termed it as being one of the major reasons for downhill accidents. Mikaela Shiffrin’s boyfriend also batted for the same. In the conversation with Doug Lewis, he explained, “I’m just going through it with sort of not high speed, but constant speed. So I can sort of feel out the terrain a little bit on my foot and stuff.” A snippet of that interview is just out on IG as ELITEAM posted it on its account. The caption went, “@akilde shares his Inspection routine for Downhill and Super-G. Super interesting! Coaches and racers pay attention!”

Moreover, he was also in support of the slow and sound start, to take out a better inspection. “The first training, I always do pretty slow, try to figure things out and do good analysis”, the former world champion conceded. But he was also in support of the acclimatization. In that notion, Aleksander voiced a night skiing routine to stay mentally ready for the next day’s challenge. In a fateful situation, these words seemed like proper guidance in downhill skiing. So the budding skiing talents should keep a note of it as accidents have kept coming in from that zone. 

After Vlhova, another opponent of Mikaela Shiffrin faces an accident 

Before facing Mikaela Shiffrin in the World Cup last month, Petra Vlhova faced a season-ending injury in Jasna downhill. After that, the list included Shiffrin’s accident in the Italian downhill. Now it was time for a downhill specialist, Sofia Goggia, to extend that list of injured skiers. On Monday, the veteran had her season-ending injury in the tibia and malleolus bones. The 31-year-old skiing luminary has a history of accidents in the Super-G as well. But this time, the situation felt a lot more serious. 

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In this season, there was yet another fateful incident where even the specialists faced downhill accidents. At this critical time, the skiing camps should keep a careful eye on Aleksander’s outpourings.

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