BEIJING — Mikaela Shiffrin will need help from her team if she’s to win any medals at the Beijing Olympics.
In position to win her first medal in Beijing after finishing fifth in the downhill portion of the Alpine combined, Shiffrin skied out in the slalom Thursday. She lost her balance at the 10th gate and couldn’t get it back, falling over completely at the 12th gate.
Shiffrin’s U.S. teammates Keely Cashman and Isabella Wright also skied out. American Tricia Mangan finished 11th.
Shiffrin had Did Not Finishes (DNF) in the giant slalom and slalom, as well, skiing off the course after the fifth gate in the first run of each race.
“I don’t really understand it. And I’m not sure when I’m going to have much of an explanation,” Shiffrin said. “And I can’t explain to you how frustrated I am to not know what I can learn from the day.”
The combined, which is a run each of downhill and slalom, with results based on overall time, was Shiffrin’s last individual event in Beijing. She’d been expected to contend for multiple medals here, after winning three in her previous two Games, but her best finish was ninth in the super-G.
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Shiffrin still has one last chance at a medal. She has said she plans to do the team event Saturday, which features head-to-head races in a single-elimination bracket.
“I should probably just quit,” Shiffrin joked. “But I’m going to go out and ski some team event (practice) tomorrow and then we’ll do the team event.
“I have literally no idea why we keep coming back and doing it, especially after today,” she said. “But I’m going to come back out tomorrow and ski some parallel GS because I’m that much of an idiot.”
After the slalom and giant slalom, the combined was considered Shiffrin’s best race. She is the reigning world champion in the event, and won a silver medal in the combined four years ago at the Pyeongchang Olympics.
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Though she races downhill sparingly – she has done only four races in the last two years, and hadn’t even been on her downhill skis in two months before Saturday’s first training run – Shiffrin set herself up well Thursday morning.
A clean run left her 0.56 seconds behind Austria’s Christine Scheyer. But neither Scheyer nor the other skiers in front of Shiffrin were slalom specialists, giving the American a chance to make up ground in the slalom – especially on a course set by Mike Day, one of Shiffrin’s coaches.
“Somewhere in your head, you know the opportunity (for a medal) is there,” Shiffrin said. “Even without seeing the video, I know that was really good skiing. And anytime I’ve ever been so sure about something like that in my entire career, it’s gone pretty well. The track record is – what I can say is, with that kind of feeling on my skis, I never DNF.
“And now, I’ve had a pretty good feeling on my skis two races in a row, on the same slope and I’ve DNF’d twice.”
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