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Tragic news for the slalom ace: Mikaela Shiffrin’s father has passed away.
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Everything was still good: Father Jeff Shiffrin photographed daughter Mikaela in the World Cup last March.
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Ski family: Mikaela Shiffrin with her parents Jeff and Eileen.
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Jeff Shiffrin died unexpectedly at the age of 65. He was an anesthetist.
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Difficult winter for Shiffrin: The 24-year-old now loses her father after her grandmother.
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A few days before the start of the World Cup winter, Mikaela Shiffrin suffered a hard blow. Her beloved grandmother Pauline Condron died. She was 98 years old. And now this: Shiffrin’s father Jeff is also dead. “My family is heartbroken,” writes the four-time overall World Cup winner on social media. It is not clear what the trained anesthetist died from. Shiffrin writes of an “unexpected” death. Jeff Shiffrin was 65 years old.
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The 24-year-old reports to the public with heartwarming words. «He taught us so many valuable lessons. But above all, he taught us the golden rule: be nice. And think before you act. I will always have that in me. »
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Jeffrey Shiffrin was an anesthetist. He met Mikaela’s mother Eileen in 1985 at Elisabeth Hospital near Boston. At that time she worked as a nurse, but was also a ski instructor. “Jeff”, as everyone called him, also liked to ski. The two fell in love and got married.
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Son Taylor was born in 1992, Mikaela two years later. At that time the family lived in Colorado, in 2003 they moved back to the east coast – because Jeffrey took on a new job. “But also,” he told the “New Yorker”, “because we wanted to see whether our children still enjoy skiing on the slopes, which are almost always icy.”
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What happened after that is history. Jeff’s daughter Mikaela became the best skier in the world. Now she writes: “Thank you for respecting our privacy in this devastating time.”
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