Alpine skiing-Shiffrin fails to finish again

YANQING, China : American Mikaela Shiffrin failed to finish the women's combined on Thursday, skiing out in the slalom race to leave her with no individual medal in the Beijing Olympics.

The 26-year-old had failed to finish in both the slalom and giant slalom but was well poised for a gold medal push in the combined which features a downhill and then slalom run.

(Reporting by Simon Evans; Editing by Himani Sarkar)