Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde announce their engagement

(5 Apr 2024)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 26 April 2023
1. Mikaela Shiffrin on the red carpet at Time 100 event with Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mikaela Shiffrin, Olympic gold medallist - on what influence means:
"The biggest people who have influenced my life are the people I have felt most connected with. It could be someone you don't even know, who you just see in a movie and you relate to them more. Or world leaders or athletes in their own right and so that's for me, yeah influence is connection."
3. Mikaela Shiffrin on the red carpet at Time 100 event with Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mikaela Shiffrin, Olympic gold medallist:
"There is probably no one way, no one path that's meant to be cut but you have to find your own way and do it with the people around you who love you and support you."
5. Mikaela Shiffrin on the red carpet at Time 100 event
STORYLINE:
Skiing power couple Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have announced they're engaged to be married.

Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion who has won a record 97 World Cup races, holds her ring up to the camera in one of several photos they posted on their social media accounts.

Aamodt Kilde is a former overall World Cup champion and two-time Olympic medalist. The 31-year-old Norwegian's season ended in January when he sustained injuries in a crash during a downhill race in Wengen, Switzerland.

They've been dating for several years.

The 29-year-old Shiffrin completed her season three weeks ago with her record-extending 60th win in slalom and 97th overall at the World Cup finals.

The American had been earlier sidelined for six weeks because of a knee injury sustained in a downhill crash Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy in January.


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