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After days of disappointment, Mikaela Shiffrin storms to gold in slalom
MILAN — In her third and final opportunity to medal at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Team USA superstar skier Mikaela Shiffrin ended her struggles at the Olympics during two emphatic runs Wednesday that earned her gold in slalom.
Shiffrin stormed down a Cortina d’Ampezzo course with nearly 600 feet of vertical drop to finish in 47.13 seconds after her first run, 0.82 of a second ahead of the rest of the field. In slalom, skiers take two runs and the times are combined to determine medals.
Four hours later, Shiffrin stood at the starting gate for her second and final run, knowing she was less than 51 seconds away from her first medal since 2018.
Mikaela Shiffrin snaps her Olympic drought, wins gold in women's slalom
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Take that, haters. Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympic drought is over.
Shiffrin won gold in the slalom Wednesday, Feb. 18, her first medal since winning a silver in the combined at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. It snapped an 0-for-8 streak at the Winter Games, which included DNFs in three events four years ago.
It is Shiffrin's second gold in the Olympic slalom and third overall, tying her with snowboarder Shaun White and bobsledder Kaillie Humphries for second-most golds by a U.S. Winter Olympian. Speedskaters Bonnie Blair and Eric Heiden each won five golds.
It also is Shiffrin's fourth Olympic medal, tying her with Julia Mancuso for most by a U.S. woman in Alpine skiing.
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Mikaela Shiffrin wins slalom to snap 8-year Olympic drought
Mikaela Shiffrin's turbulent, 12-year Olympic journey came full circle Wednesday when she won the slalom by a massive 1.50 seconds to break her long medal drought at the Winter Games.
Shiffrin put in two dominant runs in gorgeous conditions amid the jagged peaks of the Dolomites to show, again, why she is regarded by many as the greatest Alpine skier of all time.
It was the third-largest margin of victory in a women's Olympic slalom, the event she won as a fresh-faced teenager in Sochi in 2014 to underline her status as a skiing star.
Twelve years later, she delivered again in her favorite race, and the emotions came out in the finish area after being embraced by world champion Camille Rast of Switzerland, who took silver, and bronze medalist Anna Swenn Larsson of Sweden.
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