Is Miakaela Shiffrin in the house?

By Chris Freud

BEAVER CREEK — So apparently, there’s some local connection with today’s giant slalom.Welcome back to Beaver Creek and today’s FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s GS, aka “Mikaela is here.”The Worlds started something like two years ago — actually 10 days — and Mikeaela finally gets to ski in an individual event.If you have been living in a cave without wireless recently, the force is strong with Eagle-Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin, who will wear No. 3 today.Obviously slalom is her stength right now, but Shiffrin got her first GS win back in October in Soelden, Austria, a tie with Anna Fenninger …

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