Mikaela Shiffrin captures gold medal with incredible slalom performance at Winter Games

Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the apical of the podium successful the alpine skiing women’s slalom lawsuit connected Wednesday astatine the Winter Olympics.

As she awaited her moment, her manager told her to "rip this thing." She surely did.

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United States' Mikaela Shiffrin arrives astatine the decorativeness country of an alpine ski, women's slalom race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Shiffrin recorded a full clip of 1:39.10 aft going down the elevation with a clip of 47.13 connected her archetypal tally and 51.97 connected her second. She catapulted herself to golden medal presumption and added to Team USA’s medal total.

After a disastrous tally successful the 2022 Beijing Games, Shiffrin was capable to support her composure and present an unthinkable tally to drawback the gold. But she had to hold a fewer agonizing seconds arsenic the 2 competitors up of her failed to marque it done the course.

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United States' Mikaela Shiffrin astatine the decorativeness country of an alpine ski, women's slalom race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Shiffrin locked successful and adjacent gained clip connected her competitors successful portions of the course. She bent down successful astir disbelief realizing the unthinkable infinitesimal she made.

It wasn’t that agelong agone erstwhile Shiffrin had a shocking outing successful the 2022 Games wherever she didn’t marque the podium successful immoderate of the alpine skiing events contempt being considered 1 of the top of each clip successful her sport. Now, she tin telephone herself a three-time golden medalist.

She’s the 2nd Olympic skier to triumph golden doubly successful the event.

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin, center, victor of an alpine ski, women's slalom race, celebrates with second-placed Switzerland's Camille Rast, left, and third-placed Sweden's Anna Swenn Larsson, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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Switzerland’s Camille Rast was 2nd with a metallic and Sweden’s Anna Larsson Swenn secured the bronze medal.

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