Triple Olympic medalist (giant gold in 2014, slalom gold and combined silver in 2018), Shiffrin came out in giant, slalom and therefore combined, while she usually shines with her technical safety.

He still has the team parallel on Saturday.

QUESTION: How did you approach your day?

ANSWER: "I felt calm, I had a good plan of attack for the descent, I skied the track well. Afterwards in my head I knew that I had the opportunity to win a medal. I upped the tempo in slalom, but if you compare to the slalom race (last week), I was calmer. I had a good feeling on those first nine gates. It feels good in slalom, but two outings slope... I didn't want to ski on the defensive to protect I don't know what lead after the descent on the other slalom specialists. I wanted to do a good slalom. It wasn't too much to ask of me I think. is what I started doing, then I left..."

Q: Did you come under any particular pressure?

A: "People say it's a story of pressure, there were times during the Games where I felt a lot of pressure, the expectations, but it didn't affect me during my races in general. , and it was certainly not superior to what I had already experienced in my career, at the Worlds, at the last Olympics... The pressure is still there, and it doesn't bother me, it is familiar to me. I'm a little more tense but I can still ski well. Today I felt calm and solid in my mind. Of course I wanted to win a medal, but above all I wanted to treat myself to another round of slalom on this slope. What disappoints me even more than coming away from the Games without an individual medal is that I missed every opportunity I had in slalom here."

Mikaela Shiffrin off track during the alpine combined of the Beijing Games, February 17, 2022 in Yanqing Fabrice COFFRINI AFP

Q: How did you experience these Games?

A: "These are tough Games. My preparation was good, things fit together well. But that's sport, you can be totally ready, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I don't know why I came back to the track every time. I'm going to come back tomorrow for some parallel runs because I'm an idiot! (ironic). Getting nice turns is still nice, that's what I did for two weeks, I wish I could show it. Now I feel ridiculous. I have a lot of questions. I'm disappointed and frustrated. I also know there's going to be this pile of bad comments about how I failed miserably. the last few weeks. It's strange, but I'm not even afraid of it because I don't have any energy left to devote to it."

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