Mikaela Shiffrin

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Mikaela Shiffrin ‘not disappointed’ after fourth-place finish in team event (unknown)

Mikaela Shiffrin and Team USA finished fourth in the mixed team parallel skiing event after a tiebreak with Norway in the bronze-medal run.

“There is so much about this event that just hangs in the balance, and today with wind, as well, there’s just too much that you have to hope for good karma or good luck or whatever,” Shiffrin said. On Sunday, Shiffrin competed first for the American team in the opening round. If she had won a medal, she would have tied Julia Mancuso for the most medals by an American woman in alpine skiing. The Americans lost out on the bronze medal to Norway in a tiebreak. “I am not disappointed,” Shiffrin said after the race. “I don’t really understand it, and I’m not sure when I’m going to have much of an explanation.

Winter Olympics 2022 -- Highlights from the closing ceremony in Beijing (unknown)

In the last night of the Olympic Games, Jessie Diggins earned a silver and Mikaela Shiffrin just missed a medal. Live updates here.

They paid homage to "Cool Runnings" after their final run by kissing a lucky egg, as the Jamaican team did in the movie. Jamaica, the beloved global favorites, did not qualify for the fourth and final run, and finished in 28th place out of 28 teams. Germany concluded its reign of bobsled dominance on the final day of competition with a 1-2 finish in the four-man event. Switzerland, the defending gold medalists, was eliminated in the quarterfinals. Austria won the gold medal and Germany earned the silver. The team competition, which pits a skier from each country in a head-to-head slalom race, made its Olympic debut in 2018. During the individual races at the Olympics, Shiffrin recorded a rare "Did Not Finish" during the slalom, grand slalom and in the combined event. The knot you see as athletes are entering— Olympics (@Olympics) #ClosingCeremonyis the traditional "Chinese knot" pattern. Ebba Andersson (Sweden) was in third for much of the race, but fell to eighth in the final moments. It's the last Olympic medal the U.S. will win at these Games, and it gives Diggins the full complement of gold, silver and bronze in her Olympic career. (Of 66,937 coronavirus tests administered in the Olympic bubble on Saturday, only one came back positive, the authorities reported.) Finland won its first Olympic hockey gold medal, and Germany dominated in the four-man bobsled.

Mikaela Shiffrin leaves Beijing Olympics without a medal (unknown)

Mikaela Shiffrin's crash-filled 2022 Beijing Olympics ended Sunday without any medals for the American skier.

U.S. ski star Mikaela Shiffrin ends Beijing Olympics without a medal (unknown)

After more than two weeks of blood, sweat and tears, Norway tops the medals table for a second Games in a row, winning 16 golds.

“It’s just a dream for me.” Johaug was ruled out of the 2018 Winter Games after failing a doping test for a substance in a lip balm. It was just Britain’s second medal of the Games in total — the other being silver for the men’s curlers on Saturday. Today is my favorite memory. But this was a fortnight to forget for 26-year-old Shiffrin, who came into the Games as one of its biggest stars but leaves it without a medal of any description to add to her golds from 2014 and 2018. There was a last-gasp gold too for Britain — their first in the Chinese capital — thanks to their women’s curling team, and more German success in bobsleigh.

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Winter Olympics recap: Jessie Diggins wins Team USA's final medal ... (USA TODAY)

Cross-country skiing standout Jessie Diggins adds silver in women's 30K to go with earlier bronze; Team USA finishes with 25 total medals in Beijing.

If it is the last time I’m in the sled, and if it is my last Olympics run, I wanted to go out the way I wanted to." "We’re going to be able to do this together and we’re going to train together and do all this stuff in the future. When Meyers Taylor and brakeman Sylvia Hoffman reached the bottom of the track at Yanqing Sliding Center, having put down a flawless run that guaranteed a medal, her reaction said it all. But she only finished two of her individual events, recording Did Not Finishes in the giant slalom, slalom and Alpine combined, her best events. BEIJING — Ville Pokka scored off a shot from the right boards that Russian goaltender Ivan Fedotov never saw because of Saku Maenalanen’s screen in front of the net. The 18-year-old was part of the U.S. program before she decided in 2019 to compete for China, where her mother, Yan, is from. That was, until Ville Pokka scored off a shot from the right boards that Fedotov never saw because of Saku Maenalanen’s screen in front of the net. Russia won the 2018 gold over Germany in Pyeongchang, a tournament that also did not include NHL players. She said the federation is open to doing so in the future, especially if U.S. athletes can benefit from training with Gu. She is the first non-European skier to win an Olympic medal in the women's 30K. "We were all eating together and they were saying collaboration, we want to collaborate more in the future. I have to put everything I have into the snow today and finish with nothing left.

Shiffrin shares story of resilience at Beijing Olympics (unknown)

In sports, how an athlete ends a race sometimes is more important than how they start.

Shiffrin Barely Misses Medal In Mixed Team Event, Notes 'Special Feeling' (unknown)

The slumping U.S. ski star will leave the Beijing Winter Olympics without a medal but is "optimistic."

The mixed team event was postponed a day after gusts at up to about 40 mph (65 kph) kept skiers off the slopes Saturday. Shiffrin and most of the U.S. team had been scheduled to fly out of China early Sunday but changed their plans to remain in the team event. “There was aboslutely some thought that the 24 hours makes a difference to still be like, pushing and using that energy,” she said. “There’s still things that need to be worked out, but I think we were all so excited to compete together. Shiffrin went 0 for 5 in her bid for an individual medal in Beijing. She only reached the finish line at two individual events, coming in ninth in the super-G and 18th in the downhill, her two worst contests. “I get that people will say we came up short, but the thing is, to have this depth on our team coming from the U.S., competing in a European dominated sport ... it was unbelievable.” “There’s things to work out with the logistics of this event,” Shiffrin said. Shiffrin lost her quarterfinal race from the red slope against Italy’s Marta Bassino by 2 hundredths of a second. Radamus and Paula Moltzan won their heats by even larger margins as the U.S. advanced. But after such an exasperating Olympics, the moment was good as gold for Shiffrin anyway. “Today is my favorite memory.” She lasted about five gates in giant slalom, five gates in the slalom and 10 in the slalom portion of the two-leg combined. The U.S. used Shiffrin on the slower of the parallel courses, and she lost three of her four heats, including in the bronze matchup against Norway. Teammate River Radamus delivered the win the U.S. needed in the last heat to force a 2-2 deadlock, but he wasn’t fast enough to tilt the tiebreaker — combined times of the fastest man and woman — to the Americans’ favor.