Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a three-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event.
Mikaela Shiffrin: Did win the slalom today| Did race today| Slalom
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Did win the slalom today:
In a shocking moment on the slopes Wednesday at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin got a DNF in the second race in a row. The American superstar skidded out of control about five seconds into the opening run of the slalom and is out of the event.
In a wild night in snowboard competition, Lindsey Jacobellis won gold in her fifth Olympics in snowboardcross, while Chloe Kim and Shaun White qualified into halfpipe finals.
Did race today:
Shiffrin is hoping to make history in Beijing by winning at least one Olympic gold medal, which would give her the most ever by an American Alpine skier. Another medal of any kind would tie her for the most decorated Olympic woman skier from the United States. She still has three more chances to do just that, starting with Friday’s super-G competition.
Shiffrin is expected to participate in the super-G race Friday, and then the downhill and combined competitions on Tuesday and Thursday of next week. But when she was asked if she was still “up to compete” in the remaining events, she wasn’t certain.
Slalom:
Medal favorite Kim Boutin of Canada slipped just short of the finish line of her 1,000-meter qualifier in women’s speed skating. Boutin held a commanding lead but agonizingly lost her footing with a clear run to the finish.
“Yeah,” she said before pausing. “I mean, no. I’ll try to reset again, and maybe try to reset better this time. But I also don’t know how to do it better because I’ve never been in this position before and I don’t know how to handle it.
“The hill and the ski track looks pretty incredible and I think it will be a pleasure to ski but I also have some teammates who are really fast and we have the athletes who can fill the spaces. If I’m going to ski out on the fifth gate, what’s the point?”
