Winter Olympics 2022 - Mikaela Shiffrin crashes out of giant slalom, Sara Hector leads after first run

Defending Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin has crashed out of the giant slalom on her first run on the dry snow on the Ice River course and has been disqualified from the event. Shiffrin won the slalom at the 2014 Olympics before taking another gold in the giant slalom four years later in Pyeongchang. Ad/> The American, who is currently top of the overall World Cup standings, was bidding to win gold again in the giant slalom but she was unable to complete her first run.

The defending Olympic champion could not get to grips with the snow at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Centre and has registered her first DNF since Kronplatz in 2018. Beijing 2022Downhill postponed due to high winds, rearranged for MondayYESTERDAY AT 02:41 After bursting out of the gate, she began to drift early on, unable to get her skis around to make the next gate, and crashed after coming around the fifth gate; a left-turn gate. «That was another boot out,» Emma Carrick-Anderson said on commentary.

«Oh my goodness on the fifth gate. The ski we already saw drifting sideways. The gate before and then she goes just three gates later.» She added: «It's just a tiny little lapse in concentration possibly.

I'm still gobsmacked. Very rarely do we see Shiffrin go out, especially not in the top five gates.» /> Shiffrin has four races remaining at the Olympics, including her best event, the slalom, on Wednesday. The 26-year-old will tie Julia Mancuso for the most Olympic medals by an American woman if she wins one more medal in Beijing.