Olympic star Shiffrin: Loss of father 'still pretty painful'

FILE - United States' Mikaela Shiffrin, center, celebrates with second-place Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami, left, and third-place Slovakia's Petra Vlhova on the podium after a women's World Cup giant slalom ski race in Soelden, Austria, Oct. 23, 2021. Shiffrin is expected to enter all five individual Alpine events and be one of the main faces of the Olympics that officially open on Feb. 4. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati, File)

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during the first run of an alpine ski women's World Cup slalom, in Schladming, Austria, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

FILE - First-place Mikaela Shiffrin right, of the United States, and her mother, Eileen, smile at the end of a women's World Cup slalom skiing race in Lienz, Austria, Dec. 28, 2017. Eileen is the skiing expert who travels the World Cup circuit — parent, coach, adviser and, as she put it, “shoulder to cry on and vent." (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta, File)

FILE - United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during a women's World Cup super-G skiing race in Val D'Isere, France, Dec. 19, 2021. Shiffrin is expected to enter all five individual Alpine events and be one of the main faces of the Olympics that officially open on Feb. 4. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati, File)

FILE - Mikaela Shiffrin, center, talks with her ski technician, right, along with her father, Jeff Shiffrin, left, after a practice run for the women's World Cup ski race in Aspen, Colo., Nov. 23, 2012. Jeff Shiffrin died at age 65 on Feb. 2, 2020, in an accident at the family home in Colorado, (AP Photo/Nathan Bilow, File)