Listening to her speak after her win on Wednesday, it was clear that her emotion was not about having silenced her doubters or having lifted any hex — or even just about recapturing the gold. Shiffrin’s father died after an accident in 2020. The way she spoke about how she has experienced life since then will likely resonate with anyone who mourns a loved one (my dad died last year, and I was stunned at how exactly she captured this unmooring).