Mikaela Shiffrin, the best ski racer of all time, did not win a medal on the final Winter Olympics and was left off the rostrum in Large Slalom and the Staff Mixed races at Milan-Cortina.
As we speak, February 18, Shiffrin shook the proverbial monkey off her again and raced to Olympic glory within the Girls’s Slalom, her most dominant occasion.
Shiffrin not solely gained Gold, she completely crushed the sector. Successful a race by a second in Slalom is spectacular. Successful a race by 1.5 seconds, as Shiffrin did within the Slalom as we speak, is virtually extraordinary, at the least on the Olympic degree.
The truth is, Shiffrin’s 1.5-second victory is the most important profitable margin in Olympic Slalom since Swiss skier Vreni Schneider gained by 1.68 seconds on the 1998 video games in Calgary.
The sphere simply could not deal with Shiffrin’s velocity, precision, and fluidity. Camille Rast of Switzerland gained the Silver, and Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson secured bronze.
Milan-Cortina Girls’s Slalom podium from left to proper: Camille Rast (SUI): Silver, Mikaela Shiffrin (USA): Gold, Anna Swenn Larsson (SWE): Bronze.
Milan-Cortina Girls’s Slalom podium from left to proper: Camille Rast (SUI): Silver, Mikaela Shiffrin (USA): Gold, Anna Swenn Larsson (SWE): Bronze.
With as we speak’s victory, Shiffrin now has three Olympic Gold medals and one Silver along with her record-setting 108 World Cup victories.
Shiffrin advised NBC in a post-race interview that she was emotional after clinching the Gold medal as a result of lack of her father in 2020:
“It is a second I’ve been fairly frightened of for a fairly very long time, as a result of … each new expertise in life is an expertise that he’s not right here to see, not in particular person,” Shiffrin stated. “And I figured, would possibly as effectively have a non secular, non secular second and simply, I don’t know, simply take into consideration him.”
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