Mikaela Shiffrin won't defend giant slalom title after slipping out of race
The night before Mikaela Shiffrin's first race at the Beijing Olympics, a post on her social media accounts endorsing headphones carried a simple tagline: "Yeah, I am human." The words meant something much different Monday. The world's top female skier fell seconds into her first run of the giant slalom and was eliminated from competition at the Yanqing National Alpine Centre. In one shocking ...
by Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times
Feb 06, 2022
2 minutes
The night before Mikaela Shiffrin's first race at the Beijing Olympics, a post on her social media accounts endorsing headphones carried a simple tagline: "Yeah, I am human."
The words meant something much different Monday.
The world's top female skier fell seconds into her first run of the giant slalom and was eliminated
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