Mikaela Shiffrin returns home honored at Vail celebration after setting skiing record

VAIL — A hero’s welcome was set up to celebrate U.S. ski team athlete and hometown GOAT Mikaela Shiffrin on Sunday to mark her record-breaking World Cup season. As of March 11, Shiffrin became the greatest skier of all time after she broke the record for number of career World Cup wins, previously held by Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark. Stenmark held the record of 86 wins for 34 years, and Shiffrin won her 87th World Cup race (and 88th World Cup race) in Are, Sweden. Hundreds of people gathered at Solaris Plaza in Vail Village as Shiffrin strolled down a walkway…