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.
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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.
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.
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 sat on the snow beside the slalom course, skis in front of her, poles to the side, her head buried in her arms.
The wait for gold is over for Team USA at Beijing 2022 thanks to veteran snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis.
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.
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.