World reacts to Winter Olympics’ most heartbreaking scene as champ crashes out again

Winter Olympics champion Mikaela Shiffrin has suffered a hammer blow at Beijing 2022 after crashing out early for the second straight event.

The American racer was done just five seconds into the slalom, two days after lasting only 10 seconds in the giant slalom.

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Shiffrin said she would never get over her mistake in the giant slalom and wore the pain of missing out in the slalom even more publicly.

The 26-year-old immediately kicked off her skis and slumped her head into her knees on the side of the hill, before being comforted by a Team USA official.

“I was pushing out of the start. I had full intentions of skiing as hard as I could,” Shiffrin said.

“I slipped up a little bit on one turn and I just didn’t give myself room to make any kind of error like that.

“I was planning to go on the most aggressive line, the most challenging line to ski.”

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Asked later how she was feeling, Shiffrin said: “Pretty awful, yeah. But it won’t feel awful forever. I just feel pretty low right now.”

Shiffrin came to China as one of the biggest stars of her sport, if not all, at the Winter Olympics, a