Mikaela Shiffrin secures gold medal in Winter Olympcis

Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the highest of the rostrum within the girls’s alpine snowboarding slalom occasion on the Winter Olympics on Wednesday.

As she waited for her second, her coach informed her to “rip this factor.” She actually did.

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Mikaela Shiffrin arrives on the end line of a girls’s alpine ski slalom race in the course of the Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, on Wednesday, February 18, 2026. (AP Picture/Andy Wong)

Shiffrin recorded a complete time of 1:39.10 after descending the hill with a time of 47.13 on her first run and 51.97 on her second. She catapulted herself into the gold medal place and added to Group USA’s medal whole.

After a disastrous run on the 2022 Beijing Video games, Shiffrin stored her composure and delivered an unbelievable run to take the gold. However she needed to wait a number of agonizing seconds as the 2 opponents in entrance of her failed to finish the course.

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Mikaela Shiffrin on the end line of a girls’s alpine snowboarding slalom race on the Winter Olympics, Wednesday, February 18, 2026. (AP Picture/Andy Wong)

Shiffrin joined in and even gained time on her opponents in components of the course. She bent over nearly in disbelief, realizing the unbelievable second she was making.

It wasn’t way back that Shiffrin had a surprising displaying on the 2022 Video games, failing to make the rostrum in any of the alpine snowboarding occasions regardless of being thought of one of many all-time greats in her sport. Now she will be able to name herself a three-time gold medalist.

She is the second Olympic skier to win two golds within the occasion.

Mikaela Shiffrin, heart, winner of a girls’s alpine ski and slalom race, celebrates with Camille Rast in second place, left, and Anna Swenn Larsson in third place, on the Winter Olympics, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Picture/Andy Wong)

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Switzerland’s Camille Rast got here second with silver and Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson secured the bronze medal.

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