Mikaela Shiffrin has yet to medal at Winter Olympics but remains upbeat
by Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times
Feb 15, 2022
2 minutes
BEIJING — The 1.7-mile downhill course plunges through barren brown hillsides, past haggard trees and towering gray rock faces, all transformed by a coating of snow from a storm that passed through a few days earlier.
As Mikaela Shiffrin raced through the wintry showcase at the Yanqing National Alpine Centre on Tuesday, she seemed to have been transformed too.
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