Ski World Cup
Shiffrin speaks of an interview boycott following tears broke out at ORF
With a tearful TV interview, Mikaela Shiffrin caused great emotions. Now the US ski superstar no longer wants to give interviews if he doesn’t feel “ready for it”.
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Mikaela Shiffrin cried in the interview.
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Mikaela Shiffrin burst into tears in an interview shortly following her run at the World Cup Super-G.
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The interviewing ORF reporter had to put up with criticism followingwards.
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Shiffrin protects him and speaks of a “misunderstanding”.
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In the future, the US ski star wants to avoid such interviews.
It is “emotions in the wrong direction”. in her agitated TV interview with ORF been, explains Mikaela Shiffrin to several media. The US star skier broke down in tears during the talk immediately following her Super-G run. “I didn’t quite understand what he wanted to say and took it a bit more aggressively,” explains Shiffrin, who won silver in the first speed race of the World Championships.
By “he” means the 27-year-old ORF reporter Christian Diendorfer, who had to put up with criticism on social media following the sensational interview with Shiffrin. Many fans accused him of not being sensitive enough. Shiffrin defends Diendorfer and says it’s not his fault. She is sorry that the journalist had to put up with “a lot of rubbish on Twitter”.
Questions regarding the Olympic comparison annoy Shiffrin
The whole thing was “just a kind of misunderstanding”. The dominator of the Women’s World Cup revealed that she was bothered by the persistently identical questions from many journalists. “In the last four weeks I’ve had hundreds of questions regarding this World Cup and whether I’m worried that it will be exactly like the Olympics last year,” says Shiffrin.
In Beijing, despite being a favorite, she missed a medal and retired from three races. In Méribel, she got stuck at the third to last slalom gate in the combination at the start of the current World Cup. This is probably one of the reasons why the ski superstar had accumulated a lot of emotions that were released in the ORF interview following her second World Cup race. “I didn’t look happy. I think it must have looked a bit strange to people who looked at it,” Shiffrin said.
Shiffrin draws consequences
The US ski star emphasizes that he is still in a learning process and will continue to learn his lessons following the ORF incident. Boycott? Shiffrin says she “doesn’t want to go to these interviews in the future unless I’m ready to answer the questions in the best way.”
Already two weeks ago an ORF interview with Shiffrin caused a stir. After her giant slalom triumph at Kronplatz, she spoke regarding her period (“monthly cycle”), which was incorrectly translated by a reporter from the Austrian TV station as “monthly cycling”.
