Set for a return to to ski racing after 300 days away, Mikaela Shiffrin is looking for the answer to a question she has been asking herself since March.How will feel to compete again?“Hopefully it is a positive experience.
And I don’t mean, ‘hopefully I win,’ but hopefully it is a positive experience to be a ski racer, still, and hopefully that will be the driving force,” Shiffrin said Thursday, two days before the longest break in her decade-long World Cup career is expected to end at a slalom in Levi, Finland.“It didn’t really feel it was that long of a break," she said. "This spring, summer, fall, this period since I last raced has been the busiest, most stressful time of my life. ...