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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTaylor Swift did not need a paragraph to make Mikaela Shiffrin\u2019s week even bigger. One word on Instagram was enough. After Shiffrin won gold in women\u2019s slalom at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina on Feb. 18, she posted a razor-sharp caption built around Swift\u2019s song \u201cRuin the Friendship.\u201dThe line Shiffrin chose was simple: \u201cMy advice is always ruin the friendship.\u201d Swift, who is engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce<\/a>, dropped into the comments with a 1-word verdict on the run and the moment: \u201cHISTORIC \ud83e\udd47\ud83e\udd47\ud83e\udd47.\u201d<\/p>\n Shiffrin did more than sneak a lyric into a caption. She built part of her season around that track. Speaking to People, she said Swift\u2019s \u201cRuin the Friendship\u201d from \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d was the song she kept going back to before races.\u201cThe lyrics go into some loss and regret and things like that, but at the end of the day, when I started out this season listening to the album, I kept putting on \u2018Ruin the Friendship,\u2019 \u2018cause I\u2019m like, \u2018This is what I want to feel when I\u2019m in the start gate. I want to go. I just want to leave it all behind and ruin the friendship,\u2019\u201d Shiffrin said.For her, the song is about risk. She told the outlet it is \u201cabout taking risks, kind of, in my life\u201d and that the mindset fit the way she wanted to ski this season.That approach paid off. Shiffrin\u2019s slalom win gave her a third Olympic gold and made her the first U.S. skier to reach that mark, adding to a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that already includes more World Cup victories than any skier in history.She matched the aggressive mentality with the image she chose. Shiffrin told People the action shot on Instagram was \u201cprobably the best photo I\u2019ve ever had of a slalom turn,\u201d and that the lyric captured exactly how she wanted that turn to feel.Swift\u2019s reply landed with the same precision. The all-caps \u201cHISTORIC\u201d plus three gold-medal emojis nodded to Shiffrin\u2019s three Olympic titles and to where this win sits in U.S. Winter Olympic history, tying her with names like Kaillie Humphries and Shaun White for second among American winter athletes in gold medals.<\/p>\n Shiffrin\u2019s caption was not the only Alpine moment that turned into Swift content this month. American skier Breezy Johnson also pulled from Swift\u2019s catalog when her boyfriend, Connor Watkins, proposed at the finish area during the Super-G in Italy.Johnson announced the engagement on Instagram and then got her own Swift comment. This time the singer went to \u201cThe Alchemy,\u201d the track widely linked to Kelce. Swift wrote, \u201c\u2018Where\u2019s the trophy? He just comes running over to me\u2019 CONGRATULATIONS!!!\u201d on their post.Johnson later said she \u201cnever expected\u201d Swift to celebrate the moment and admitted she had to process the fact that one of the biggest artists on the planet had just dropped a line from a song tied to the Kelce romance straight into her comments.Between Shiffrin\u2019s start-gate anthem, a gold-medal Instagram post, and Johnson\u2019s proposal, Swift has found a way to sit inside the Winter Olympics feed without ever clipping into a ski. For Chiefs fans and Swifties watching from home, that 1-word \u201cHISTORIC\u201d comment felt less like a casual reaction and more like Swift officially stamping Shiffrin\u2019s run into her own growing Olympic lore.<\/div>\n\nMikaela Shiffrin leans on \u2018Ruin the Friendship\u2019 to attack the start gate<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift keeps turning the Winter Olympics into a Swiftie storyline<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n