Heartbreaking: Shiffrin devastated

The massively missed Olympic victory caused internal pain for the huge gold favorite Mikaela Shiffrin. “Every defeat I’ve had – I remember it so thoroughly. Like a part of my heart is breaking off and I can never get it back. Today I feel no different,” said the American on Friday Fourth place in the slalom and 0,40 seconds behind Olympic champion Frida Hansdotter. “At some point I will understand that this is a part of life, but I'm only 22, and at the moment I feel…” - then, one day after the triumph in the giant slalom, there was a deep, loud sigh from a bitterly disappointed person.

Basically, even without her second gold medal at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, Shiffrin is still Shiffrin and therefore the measure of all things, and she had no doubts about that herself. “I know – this sounds arrogant – that I am the best slalom skier in the world. My best slalom turns are the best in the world. But today I didn’t even come close.”

She threw up before the second round And Shiffrin, who had vomited out of nervousness before the start of the first round, as she had often done in her career, suffered. Completely exhausted, she sat huddled in the finish area and, despite the icy wind, took a long time to move towards the waiting journalists. “This is hard to digest,” she explained. “I beat myself today. I am very disappointed."

Shiffrin can remember the defeats of her career so well because there were hardly any. Since she became Slalom World Champion for the first time in 2013 at the age of 17, the Olympic victory followed a year later in Sochi and the World Championship titles in 2015 and 2017. Never before has a female ski racer been able to win the gold medal in one discipline at four major events in a row. In addition, there are her four slalom crystal balls for the discipline ranking and the first overall World Cup victory last season. A lot of work in the next few days The Super-G on Saturday will take place without Shiffrin; she wants to decide whether to start the downhill on Wednesday depending on how the training rides go. She definitely wants to compete in the combination. A lot of work awaits until then. “We will analyze that day and find out what happened to prevent this from happening in the future,” she said. Because losing, the pain – no, thank you.

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Heartbreaking: Shiffrin devastated

For almost five years it seemed to be the law: Mikaela Shiffrin won slalom gold at a major event. But in Pyeongchang, the 22-year-old American not only missed out on first place, but also missed out on the medals. The pain afterwards is great.

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