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Bill Chappell

'Race this': Mikaela Shiffrin on her mindset, and her playlist, this ski season

Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during the first run of an alpine ski World Cup women's slalom race, in Levi, Finland, on Nov. 12. (Giovanni Auletta/AP)

Even the winningest alpine skier of all time sometimes needs to pause and take a breath at the top of a mountain.

That's what you learn if you ask Mikaela Shiffrin if — despite her ability to do things no one else can — she ever needs to remind herself that hurtling down a race course is not only survivable, but something she's pretty good at.

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