Sometimes in a string of races, when it goes really well, it's easy to let my mind wander and think about how great things are going and how I hope they keep going great. But at the same time, that's such a small, small part of it.' In an interview in late February, she told NPR's A Martínez, 'As much as winning feels great, winning ski races is like 5% of what I actually do.' She said the day-in-day-out work of training happens all year, 'and you dream about the race wins. She won her first World Cup race at 17 at the same place in Sweden, where she set the world record Saturday.

This victory came 12 years to the day after Shiffrin's first World Cup race in the Czech Republic at age 15. She has three more races at next week's World Cup finals. If she stays healthy and keeps racing, she could top 100 World Cup wins by the end of her career. Shiffrin tied this record Friday before breaking it Saturday to become the winningest alpine skier in history. Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark set the previous record for career race wins on the alpine skiing World Cup at age 32 in 1989. With this victory, Shiffrin cements her place as one of the greatest skiers - and athletes - of all time. Mikaela Shiffrin, 27, won her 87th World Cup race on Saturday by hundredths of a second, breaking the overall career World Cup victory record. Mikaela Shiffrin of Team United States reacts during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Slalom on Saturday in Are, Sweden.

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