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Mikaela Shiffrin has already had a record-breaking career, but the US ski star is just one win away from her 100th World Cup victory.

The 29-year-old, already the winningest alpine skier of all time, has a chance to achieve the impressive overall score at this weekend’s Stifel Killington Cup in Vermont.

The American is expected to compete in both Saturday’s giant slalom and Sunday’s slalom, but she refuses to outdo herself.

“It’s not impossible, but so much has to work,” Shiffrin said after winning her 99th World Cup race in Austria last week.

“I think from the outside it looks easy or it looks like it’s supposed to happen, but even today it took so much energy to bring out my top skiing.

“So it’s not easy and everyone is pushing and catching up. And that’s why I don’t take it for granted.”

The deciding heats for both events will be broadcast live in the US on NBC Sports and Peacock.

The second runs for Saturday’s giant slalom and Sunday’s slalom begin at 1:00 p.m. ET.

Becoming the first female alpine skier to reach a century of World Cup victories would be the perfect end to a year that began in difficult circumstances for Shiffrin.

In January, she suffered a high-speed accident during a downhill race in Italy, resulting in a six-week hiatus from the sport.

She suffered a sprained knee ligament, but Shiffrin previously told CNN Sport that she was lucky to escape the incident with minimal damage given the impact the accident caused on her body.

“It could have ended a thousand different ways, but man, I’m thankful it turned out the way it did,” she said.

As luck would have it, Shiffrin’s partner Aleksander Aamodt Kilde also suffered a serious accident on the slopes just a few weeks before her own accident.

The Norwegian skier was involved in a horror accident during a World Cup downhill race in Switzerland, in which the two-time Olympic medalist suffered a shoulder dislocation, two torn ligaments in his shoulder and a gnarly laceration on his calf that required urgent surgery due to nerve damage.

The two supported each other in their respective rehabilitation efforts, but the truth is that Kilde still has a long way to go before he considers a return to the sport.

In October, he announced on Instagram that he would not be racing this season because he needed to undergo another shoulder operation following an infection.

However, Shiffrin now has the chance to make even more history in her remarkable career.

She will also have the chance to do this in front of her home crowd – Shiffrin went to school in Vermont.

“I guess there is some pressure, but I will try to ignore that,” she said, according to Reuters.

“When it happens, it’s wonderful; If it doesn’t happen, there’s nothing to complain about on the whole. But I hope to deliver a really good performance in front of my home crowd.”