Mikaela Shiffrin didn’t get off to the beginning she hoped for on the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Shiffrin, the defending gold medalist within the big slalom, won’t have a possibility to defend her Olympic title after the 26-year-old skied out throughout her first run of the occasion on Monday in Beijing. As a result of she didn’t full the run, Shiffrin is disqualified and won’t compete within the second run.
Shiffrin fell and missed a gate early in her run.
“I used to be attacking and only a small mistiming of after I set my edges and simply slipped out,” Shiffrin stated on NBC, through Karen Mizoguchi of Folks.com. “It is superb floor, it is such superb situations, however you have no room for some small errors or something like that and I used to be pushing, so I am actually pleased with that however 5 gates into the course, that stings.”
In accordance with Tim Layden of NBC Sports activities, Shiffrin has skied out simply 14 occasions (together with Monday) throughout 229 World Cup, Olympic and World Championship profession races, and simply thrice in 4 years.
Whereas she won’t defend her gold medal from the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, Shiffrin ought to have loads of alternative to take residence some {hardware}. In accordance with The Related Press, she “hopes to enter all 5 particular person occasions” within the sport.
If she will be able to declare first place in any occasion, Shiffrin would be the first Alpine skier from the US to win three Olympic gold medals.
