An unfamiliar feeling came over Mikaela Shiffrin at the first slalom of this past season, about one minute before she would push out of the gate as the last racer in the final run.
“Oh my gosh, I’m going to throw up,” Shiffrin recalled last week of a World Cup stop in Levi, Finland, on Nov. 12. “I didn’t actually, but I kind of dry heaved or gagged in the start and then went.”
Shiffrin had never thrown up at a competition.
“I have now,” she said last week. “Not in the first race, but I did actually throw up at several races after that, until probably the middle of the season.