Ask Mikaela Shiffrin how she and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, a Norwegian Alpine star, became ski racing’s power couple and she chuckles.
“It’s a very modern story,” Shiffrin, the two-time American Olympic gold medalist, said with a grin. “Millennial style.”
Facebook friends for several years, private messages, texts, Instagram. Finally, a first date in person was arranged. Then last winter, coronavirus outbreaks were proliferating on the World Cup ski racing circuit.
“I was so paranoid, I made him get a negative Covid test,” Shiffrin said, laughing as she sat in her Colorado home late last year. “Romantic, huh?