Shiffrin questioning ‘everything I thought I knew’ after DNF
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SR Staff Report
Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin’s second race at the Beijing Games was over even more quickly than her first.
The 26-year-old American skidded out of control about five seconds into the opening run of the slalom Wednesday and was out of the event, just like that. That was even less time than her 10-second-or-so trip down the hill in the first run of the giant slalom on Monday.
“I think I just slipped,” Shiffrin said after the race. “I mean, I had every intention to go full gas, and there wasn’t really any space in the course to, I don’t know, to slip, not even a little bit. I didn’t even give myself space for that
“In my experience that mentality has brought my best skiing and today, when I rung that 5th gate …” Shiffrin said before trailing off.
“Pretty much everything makes me second-guess the last 15 years,” she added. “Everything I thought I knew about my own skiing, and slalom and racing mentality. Just processing a lot for sure.”
Her full post-race comments below:
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