Shiffrin Launches ‘Moving Right Along’ YouTube Series

>Mikaela Shiffrin launched a YouTube channel with a new series called Moving Right Along. Episode 1 | The Beginning dropped on Saturday, Dec. 17. 

Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion, six-time World Champion and four-time overall World Cup globe winner on the Stifel U.S. Alpine Team, launched the series with a focus on “moving forward” after missing the medals at the 2022 Olympics, while giving her fans a look at her life on the FIS World Cup circuit from her own perspective.

“For so much of my career, my story has been told through someone else’s perspective,” wrote Shiffrin on Instagram. “I am so grateful not only for the media’s interest in sharing my personal journey, but also for sharing this sport that has provided so much passion and joy for my family and me. That said, most people often only get an in depth glimpse of our sport every four years, when the Olympics roll around. Don’t get me wrong, the Olympics are definitely a big deal, but I feel that there is so, so much more to this amazing sport than what is broadcast every four years.”

The first episode begins at the opening World Cup race in Soelden, Austria. While the race was canceled, Shiffrin was able to get in some training, meet her fans that came to watch her, and cook with her boyfriend—Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the reigning World Cup super-G and downhill champion. The episode then goes to Levi, where she won the two opening World Cup slalom races, adding two additional reindeer to her herd and bringing the total to six.

In the 2022-23 season, Shiffrin has already reached 77 World Cup wins as of December 18 and is nearing two massive records: becoming the winningest woman skier in history (Lindsey Vonn has 82 wins), and becoming the winningest skier of all time (Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark has 86 wins).  

“Failing doesn’t mean you’re a failure,” says Shiffrin in the first episode. “It’s the concept that you can fail so many times and you can still get up and still race and still succeed.”

Follow Shiffrin along as she pursues success this season. Episodes will be uploaded every two to three weeks throughout the season. Subscribe here.