Mikaela Shiffrin was 15th in the slalom portion of the Alpine team combined event, causing. her and Breezy Johnson to miss the podium. Was it a fluke?

Shiffrin and her women's team combined partner Breezy Johnson were favored for gold

On Saturday in Spindlruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, Mikaela Shiffrin returned to a giant slalom podium at the same place where she made her World Cup debut 15 years ago. Reigning Olympic GS champion Sara

The most decorated slalom racer in history could tell the snow under her skis didn’t feel right to her as she made her way down the Tofane course in the first Olympic women’s team combined event on Tuesday.

Mikaela Shiffrin arrives at the 2026 Winter Olympics as her sport’s decade-long statistical outlier and standard-bearer. The Colorado native, now 30, is the winningest World Cup Alpine skier in history with 108 career victories, and she heads to Milan Cortina as the clear gold-medal favorite in slalom.

Each of Mikaela Shiffrin’s four Olympics have been “wildly different experiences,” but the luster of the Games has never worn off. “With those experiences, being able to show up to Cortina and still be