Winter Olympics 2022: 'Today is my favourite memory' - Mikaela Shiffrin 'not disappointed' despite missing out on medal

Mikaela Shiffrin described competing in the mixed team parallel event as the «best possible way» to end Beijing 2022 despite again missing out on a medal. Shiffrin had failed to finish in any of her preferred individual events, with a ninth place in the Super-G her best result.

Ad/> The 26-year-old shifted her travel plans to remain in China for the final event of the alpine skiing programme, hoping that a medal may be won alongside her teammates in the condensed, head-to-head format. Beijing 2022Shiffrin ends Beijing 2022 without a medal as top seeds Austria pip Germany to mixed parallel gold3 HOURS AGO However Shiffrin was again a little off her brilliant best as the USA lost the bronze medal small final to Norway, with Austria securing gold ahead of Germany in a tight big final.

«I am not disappointed,» Shiffrin told reporters after concluding her 2022 Winter Olympics. «I have had a lot of disappointing moments at these Games; today is not one of them.

»Today is my favourite memory. /> «This was the best possible way that I could imagine ending the Games, skiing with such strong teammates.» Shiffrin already had three Olympic medals coming into the Beijing Winter Olympics, securing a gold in the slalom on debut at Sochi 2014 before adding a gold (giant slalom) and silver (combined) four years later.

The record 47-time World Cup slalom winner appeared to struggle to get to grips with the snow at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre, unable to attack the course with the accuracy required to remain in contention. The parallel event allows little room for error regardless of conditions, and the skiers' runs were further complicated by a stiff wind that had caused the postponement of yesterday's planned proceedings on