Mikaela Shiffrin relieved to finish Olympic race; 9th in super-G
“It’s a really big relief to be here now in the finish, having skied a run well," Shiffrin said.Laying in bed ahead of her third race of the Beijing Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin could not stop dreaming about what awaited, envisioning a sequence that unfolded like“Just repetitive. The whole night long. And I kept kind of waking up from it and then going back to sleep. And it just kept happening: I skied out on the fifth gate. Surprise!” she said with a laugh. “It really felt pretty awful.
Who among us can’t relate to the concept of work-related anxiety? We still must get back on the clock — and that’s precisely what the American did Friday, at the Winter Games and placing ninth behind winner Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland in a field of 44 ski racers.“It’s a really big relief to be here now in the finish, having skied a run well. I wasn’t skiing safe or anything. But I also did get to the finish and that’s really nice for my heart to know,” she said, tapping her chest with fingers on her right hand, “that it’s not totally abandoning everything I thought I knew about the sport.
“You start to dwell on yourself, if your skills are good enough to even do it,” said Norwegian ski racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Shiffrin’s boyfriend and a two-time medalist in Beijing, who watched her compete Friday. “So that’s the most challenging part.”in the giant slalom on Monday and slalom on Wednesday. Those are both two-leg events, but she never even made it past five gates in the first run of either.
They also are her best events: She won the slalom at the 2014 Sochi Games, the giant slalom at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.Those two performances — including her first “Did Not Finish” in a giant slalom since Jan. 23, 2018, a streak of 30 races — weighed on her.Made her unclear on whether she was “up to the challenge,” to use her phrase.
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