Alpine skiing-Shiffrin may skip super-G race
YANQING, China :American Mikaela Shiffrin is considering skipping Friday's super-G race at the Beijing Olympics after she failed to finish in either the slalom or giant slalom - her two favoured races.
Mikaela Shiffrin Sport News
NBC defends Shiffrin coverage, suggests sexism by critics
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC offered a full-throated defense of how it covered skier Mikaela Shiffrin's shocking Olympics flameout, to the point of suggesting there's sexism involved in criticism that it was cruel in its portrayal of her emotional response.
Alpine skiing-Shiffrin to decide on super-G participation later on Thursday
YANQING, China : Mikaela Shiffrin will decide by 1700 local time (0900 GMT) on Thursday whether she will take part in the super-G race scheduled for Friday at the Beijing Winter Games, a spokeswoman for the U.S. team said.
Mikaela Shiffrin's twin DNFs at Beijing Winter Olympics shine a spotlight on pressure facing elite athletes
Mikaela Shiffrin sat on the snow beside the slalom course, skis in front of her, poles to the side, her head buried in her arms.
Team USA at Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games: Medals and Results
The wait for gold is over for Team USA at Beijing 2022 thanks to veteran snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis.
Winter Olympics: NBC commentators blasted for coverage of Mikaela Shiffrin’s misery ‘horrible to watch’
Supporters of Mikaela Shiffrin circled the wagons around the twice disqualified skier by comparing NBC’s Winter Olympics commentary to their coverage of Simone Biles’s Summer Olympic failure.
Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022 - Mikaela Shiffrin has no-one to apologise to
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. It wasn’t supposed to be anything close to this. Ad/> Defeat is always possible, especially for someone as supremely talented and dominant as Mikaela Shiffrin.