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Why Team USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin Thought Fiance Ghosted Her Before Engagement

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Team USA alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin got engaged to her fiancé, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, in April 2024 — but their romance journey didn’t come without a few major slaloms along the way. Shiffrin, 30, and Kilde, a two-Olympic medalist in alpine skiing from Norway, began talking via Instagram in the winter of 2020, less than a year after Shiffrin’s father, Jeff Shiffrin, died following an accident at the family’s home in Colorado. “At the time, I could not imagine. I was like, ‘I’m not doing this. I’m not going through love because I cannot go through losing people,’’ Shiffrin exclusively tol...