Mikaela Shiffrin’s story of redemption is one of the greatest tales of Olympic glory at this year’s Winter Games in Italy. The celebrated athlete with the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history, man or woman, locked down an elusive third gold medal this week when she won in the slalom, an emotional milestone she dedicated to her beloved dad, who passed away six years ago.

In addition to some well-deserved champagne and her first ever espresso martini, the GOAT skier commemorated the moment by posting a pic from her winning run on Wednesday (Feb. 18) on Instagram along with a quote from Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl track “Ruin the Friendship.” The song about regrets and risks not taken features the line “My advice is always ruin the friendship,” which Shiffrin included in the caption, catching the eye of fellow champion Swift.

In the comments, Swift responded “HISTORIC,” along with three golden medal emoji. The quote was apt considering that after her win — her first medal since scoring a silver in the combined at the 2018 games in Pyeongchang following an 0-8 string of loses at the Winter Games — Shiffrin talked about pushing away the criticism and keeping her eyes on the prize.

“It’s been so long that I’ve felt tired of questions that don’t feel like they line up with the reality of our sport,” she said after scoring gold. “And in order to do this today, I kind of needed to accept the possibility that those questions would keep coming. It was like, just don’t resist it. Just live in my own moment.”

Later, Shiffrin reposted the image on her Story, along with a snippet of the song and, a few slides later, another repost of the original image with her shocked response to the Swift shoutout, which read, “Ummmm,” followed by a series of starstruck and welling eyes emoji.

It’s not the first time Shiffrin has fangirled about Swift. She and her U.S. Ski teammates attended a Denver Eras Tour show in July 2023. Swift has also been busy from afar supporting the American athletes, narrating a promo video introducing the U.S. figure skaters — glorious gold medal winner Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito — and sending a message of support to all the athletes before last week’s opening ceremony.

She also got into the conversation after gold medal winning skier Breezy Johnson got engaged on the slopes at the games, where fiancé Connor Watkins was waiting at the finish line of the Super-G race with an engagement ring in a wooden box engraved with one of Johnson’s favorite Swift lyrics.

The engraving from Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department song “The Alchemy” read: “Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?” Swift, as she does, responded with a quote from another lyric from the song in the replies, writing, “Where’s the trophy? He just comes running over to me,” along with “CONGRATULATIONS!” And now, it seems, according to Johnson, the singer is absolutely invited to the wedding, if she can make it. Gold all around.