What is Mikaela Shiffrin?
[[File:Mikaela Shiffrin (Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|180px|{{Center|Mikaela Shiffrin, 2016}}]] '''Mikaela Shiffrin''' (born March 13, 1995) is an [[Americans|American]] [[skier]]. Her first time at the [[Winter Olympic Games]] was during the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] at [[Sochi]], [[Russia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.denverpost.com/ci_22808231/eagle-vail-teen-sensation-mikaela-shiffrin-rules-world |title=Eagle-Vail teen sensation Mikaela Shiffrin rules in World Cup slalom |author=John Meyer |date=17 March 2013 |website= |publisher=The Denver Post |accessdate=27 December 2015}}</ref> Before these Olympics, Mikaela had competed in other [[national]] and [[international]] [[competition]]s. Mikaela Shiffrin was born on March 13, 1995 in [[Vail, Colorado]].<ref name=Bio>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/mikaela-shiffrin-21396829 |title=Mikaela Shiffrin Biography |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Bio/A&E Television Networks, LLC |accessdate=27 December 2015 |archive-date=17 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117204313/http://www.biography.com/people/mikaela-shiffrin-21396829 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her father, Jeff, skied at [[Dartmouth College]].<ref name=LewisNYP>{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2014/02/04/colorado-teen-poised-to-become-next-lindsey-vonn/ |title=Teen poised to become next Lindsey Vonn |author=Brian Lewis |date=4 February 2014 |website= |publisher=New York Post |accessdate=27 December 2015}}</ref> Her mother, Eileen, came from a [[Massachusetts]] family who loved skiing.<ref name=LewisNYP/> She has an older brother named Taylor who is also a skier at the [[University of Denver]].<ref name=LewisNYP/> When Mikaela was eight her family moved to [[New Hampshire]]. Her father got a job at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Shiffrin competed in her first international competition at age fifteen.<ref name=FIS>{{cite web |url=http://www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/athletes/athlete=shiffrin-mikaela-164835/ |title=Alpine Skiing World Cup; Mikaela Shiffrin |