Mikaela Shiffrin crashes out on first run of giant slalom at Beijing Winter Olympics: 'I skied a couple good turns and I skied one turn a bit wrong and I really paid the hardest consequence for that.'
got off to a dramatic and disappointing start on Monday as the Team USA alpine skier crashed out on the first run of the women's giant slalom.
“The day was finished, basically, before it even started,” the 26-year-old American star told reporters after going down at just the fifth turn in her bid to defend the gold medal she won in 2018.“There’s huge disappointment,” she said.She also vowed to move on from Monday's disappointment, with more medal hopes still to come:"We have to move forward because there’s a lot a lot still to come the next weeks,” Shiffrin added.
Shiffrin is the favorite in Tuesday night's slalom, but is also a medal contender in the combined, in addition to having hopes in the speed events. The athlete said she suffered a string of difficulties throughout the course of the season, including previously testing positive for Covid-19 and suffering an injury.“We can go to a lot of different places during the season where we can put the blame but I think the easiest thing to say is that I skied a couple good turns and I skied one turn a bit wrong and I really paid the hardest consequence for that,” she said.
She'll now focus on becoming the first Alpine skier from the United States to win three Olympic golds across a career.Reuters
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