Overview
- Shiffrin and her mother used their podcast, What's the Point, to confirm that Eileen was diagnosed with cancer last year after a routine colonoscopy.
- Eileen said she underwent chemotherapy and radiation, which kept her from Mikaela’s usual preseason work and the World Cup season start.
- To explain Eileen’s absence during the winter, they told people she was busy setting up a newly purchased house.
- Shiffrin said she did not tell even her coaches before the Olympics because she did not want to show vulnerability.
- Despite the strain and her mother’s absence, Shiffrin won Olympic slalom gold and a sixth overall World Cup title, while Eileen urged colonoscopies and mammograms and did not share her current health status.