Just a week ago, Mikaela Shiffrin reminded the world why she stands among the greatest, conquering the snow-capped slopes of Gurgl, Austria, to claim a historic 103rd World Cup victory. Earlier this month, she had already dominated the Levi World Cup Slalom in Finland . Now, riding a wave of back-to-back triumphs and preparing for her home-state return this Saturday, Shiffrin paused for a raw, emotional moment as her fiancé Aleksander Aamodt Kilde finally stepped back into the spotlight after 685 agonising days away.

For two years, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde manifested his return to the skiing world after the Norwegian star faced a life-threatening crash in early January. Last year, on his final run down the Wengen course, Aleksander crashed so hard that it led to serious injuries to his l

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