With Mikaela Shiffrin waiting at the finish, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde makes early comeback to World Cup racing

With Mikaela Shiffrin waiting at the finish, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde makes early comeback to World Cup racing

For the last several months, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has been visualizing what his World Cup comeback could look like. “How is it going to be to be back?” he rhetorically asked. “How am I going to handle it?” On Thanksgiving Day — exactly 684 days since the Norwegian speed star suffered life-threatening injuries in a devastating crash on the Wengen Lauberhorn downhill — Kilde finally got to find out. Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde competes du…