By ANDREW DAMPF, Related Press Sports activities Author
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber of Austria gained gold within the new workforce mixed occasion on the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday when Mikaela Shiffrin surprisingly crossed fourth after losing a first-run lead by teammate Breezy Johnson.
Shiffrin, essentially the most profitable World Cup racer of all time with a report 108 victories — 71 of them in slalom, additionally a report — has now gone seven straight Olympic races with no medal.
After taking two golds and silver from her first two Olympics, Shiffrin additionally didn’t win a medal in any of her six races on the Beijing Video games 4 years in the past.
Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher of Germany earned silver and Paula Moltzan and Jacqueline Wiles of the U.S. took bronze.
“No methods right here in any respect,” Shiffrin was informed over workforce radio earlier than her run on a course set by an Austrian coach. “Truly it’s nothing to report. You bought it.”
However Shiffrin misplaced time to the leaders at each checkpoint and crossed 0.31 seconds behind — lacking a medal by ending 0.06 behind the opposite American workforce. Within the end space, Johnson — who was coming off a gold within the particular person downhill — embraced Shiffrin, whereas the Austrians and different podium finishers started celebrating.
The workforce mixed consists of 1 racer competing in a downhill run and one other in a slalom run, with the instances from the 2 added collectively to find out the outcomes.
Shiffrin nonetheless has her particular person occasions of big slalom and slalom to come back.
Neither Raedler, who positioned second within the downhill leg, nor Huber, who had the Tenth-fastest slalom leg, has ever gained a World Cup race.
Aicher, one of many few all-around skiers competing in each occasion, additionally took silver within the particular person downhill.
Wiles, who was fourth within the downhill leg, and Moltzan, who had the fourth-fastest slalom leg, each earned their first Olympic medals.
Shiffrin was solely fifteenth quickest within the slalom leg.
