The athlete's team was thrown into disarray two days before the giant slalom at the world championships.
to throw away what would have surely been gold.
“It’s just a little bit sad how it came down,” Shiffrin said, adding that she was hoping to give Day “the time and the notice” to figure out his own plans before the end of the season but that his decision to leave immediately was “difficult for all of us to imagine” after “being such a tight group, really a family.”
“I didn’t want to go for a medal, I wanted to go for the win,” said Worley, a two-time giant slalom world champion who had the added pressure of skiing in front of her home fans. Shiffrin won the giant slalom at the 2018 Olympics but this was her first world title in the discipline, making her only the fourth female skier to win world titles in four different disciplines, after previously winning four golds in slalom, one in super-G and the combined gold two years ago.
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