Mikaela Shiffrin surprisingly struggled on the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The 30-year-old Staff U.S. alpine skier had a troublesome time throughout her slalom run on Tuesday (February 10), and her scoring ultiamtely led to a 4th place end for herself and teammate Breezy Johnson through the debut alpine snowboarding mixed occasion, a primary on the Olympics.
The brand new competitors sees two individuals from the identical workforce compete, one in a single downhill run and the opposite in a single slalom run, and their scores are mixed for the ultimate consequence.
She skied with “measured” effort and confirmed “stress,” an NBC announcer stated through the run, by way of HuffPo.
Mikaela beforehand received the world title on the 2025 FIS World Alpine Ski Championships.
“Heading into Cortina, there are issues that I, for lack of a greater phrase, there’s issues that scare me. A few of it’s type of irrational. Some issues are like actually very actual, sort of logistical issues and issues like that. Most of it truly has nothing to do with sport…it’s like life oriented,” she stated on What’s the Level with Mikaela Shiffrin.
“It’s issues having to do with my household and the well being of my household and simply issues which might be unrelated to the efficiency, unrelated to the Olympics fully. However these are issues that I simply merely can’t push right into a field and overlook they exist for 3 weeks.”
Her teammates Jacqueline Wiles and Paula Moltzan took the bronze.
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