HUFFPOST - Mikaela Shiffrin Takes Last Shot At Olympic Redemption — And Nails It
The U.S. ski great has suffered greatly in her recent Winter Games races.
The U.S. ski great has suffered greatly in her recent Winter Games races.
'I wanted to be free, I wanted to unleash'
Mikaela Shiffrin’s eight-year Olympic medal drought is over.
The medal was Shiffrin's first in the 2026 Winter Olympics
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The American ski great was seeking redemption for a disastrous Games in 2022.
The team combined event pairs a downhill skier with a slalom skier. The top U.S. duo — the slalom star Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson, who won gold in the downhill on Sunday — is a medal favorite.
Shiffrin became a celebrity at 18 years old after becoming the youngest-ever skier to win Olympic slalom gold. Since then, she has faced grief, PTSD and freak injury — yet she is ready to bounce back.