Mikaela Shiffrin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
all the time.
It was just weird.
So there's this phase where I was puking at the start of every race.
Yeah.
Oh, terrible.
Every race.
Almost every race.
Because of anxiety.
It was media.
It was like fear of losing.
More just fear of what disappointment comes when you don't exceed the expectations.
I'd been really used to kind of exceeding people's expectations.
And then...
And then it was like, I'm still winning, but just winning alone isn't good enough anymore.
I actually have to win by more.
And if I'm going to exceed people's expectations, now I need to make winning by two seconds, three seconds a regular thing.
I mean, it is and it isn't.
It's so much that it's not realistic.
And I knew it at the time, but I didn't know how to explain that.
And it just...