Olympic favorite Mikaela Shiffrin may be forced to compete every day for the rest of the Olympics after repeated delays

• Mikaela Shiffrin may have to ski every day for the final 10 days of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• The intense schedule is the result of repeated delays to the women's alpine skiing events due to inclement weather, as well as Shiffrin's particularly ambitious schedule, including five different events.
  
• Should Shiffrin succeed in making it through all five events, she'll have a shot at Olympic history.

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Mikaela Shiffrin may become the busiest athlete at the Winter Olympics over the next ten days.

After multiple delays to the alpine skiing schedule due to windy conditions , events have been pushed tighter together, with the women due to compete or practice every day for the remainder of the Pyeongchang 2018 Games .

For specialists of a specific discipline, this isn't too much of an issue - aside from frustrations caused by an ever-changing schedule, many athletes will still be competing in just one or two events and thus be active on the mountain for only a few days.

But Shiffrin is aiming for a more ambitious goal this year - attempting to compete for gold in the slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and alpine combined events - meaning the abridged schedule sets her up for one of the most grueling 10-day stretches imaginable.

Shiffrin has already proven her dominance in slalom, her best event, having taken gold at the Sochi 2014 games. But being dubbed a specialist didn't sit well with Shiffrin, and now she's attempting to become one of the most decorated skiers in Winter Olympic history.

"I've had a lot of people tell me, 'Yeah, sure, you're good at slalom, but wait till you get to the real events like downhill or super-G,'" she told the New York Times . "I don't like that."

Shiffrin's busy schedule is for a shot at history - no skier, man or woman, has ever won more than three gold medals at one Olympics, or four golds over the course of their Olympic career.

Should Shiffrin string together a stretch of her best runs, she could match or even break both of those records.