By ANDREW DAMPF, Related Press Sports activities Author
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber of Austria received gold within the new crew 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, probably the most profitable World Cup racer of all time with a file 108 victories — 71 of them in slalom, additionally a file — has now gone seven straight Olympic races and not using a 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.
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 crew. 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 crew 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 return.
