" said Shiffrin, looking ahead to the 2025-26 Olympic season that begins in October. "That’s the way I’m trying to see it. There’s plenty of future left in my career, hopefully."It's Shiffrin's fourth victory in six World Cup slalom starts this season.

Mikaela Shiffrin smoothly navigated a bumpy course to easily win the women’s slalom Thursday at the World Cup finals.

Shiffrin concluded the 2024-25 season where she began — atop a World Cup slalom podium — but the months in between were filled with physical and mental recovery after a late-November injury left her with a puncture wound in her abdomen and cost her two months of competition and, ultimately, a shot at the season title.