"With one last chance to break an Olympic hoodoo stretching back a remarkable eight years, Mikaela Shiffrin delivered in style. The 30-year-old American surged to victory in the women's slalom on a sun-splashed Wednesday in the Dolomites with a two-run time of 1min 39.10sec, becoming the first US skier to win three Olympic gold medals. Switzerland's Camille Rast, the reigning world champion and only woman to have beaten Shiffrin in her signature discipline this season, came in a yawning 1.50sec behind for the silver the largest winning margin in any Olympic alpine skiing event since 1998 while Anna Swenn Larsson of Sweden took the bronze."
"Wearing the No 7 bib, Shiffrin overcame a split-second wobble during her opening run when she clipped a gate midway down the course, but she regained her rhythm immediately and pumped her first after crossing in 47.13sec, a huge 0.82sec ahead of Germany's Lena Duerr and the largest first-run lead in an Olympic women's slalom in 66 years. No one else came within a second of Shiffrin's time."
"Shiffrin's Olympic ledger stripped of context slalom gold as an 18-year-old prodigy in Sochi, giant slalom gold and combined silver in Pyeongchang would be career-defining for most skiers. But she had failed to medal in any of the six races sheentered in Beijing four years ago, including three shocking DNFs. And while she rebounded to win a fifth overall World Cup title across all disciplines the following year, there were some around the circuit including S"
Mikaela Shiffrin won the women's slalom in the Dolomites with a two-run time of 1min 39.10sec, becoming the first U.S. skier to win three Olympic gold medals. She finished 1.50 seconds ahead of Camille Rast, the largest winning margin in any Olympic alpine skiing event since 1998, while Anna Swenn Larsson took bronze. Shiffrin posted a first-run time of 47.13sec despite clipping a gate, a 0.82sec lead and the largest first-run advantage in an Olympic women's slalom in 66 years. She held her advantage on the second run and became only the second woman to win multiple Olympic slalom titles after Vreni Schneider. Shiffrin previously won slalom gold in Sochi and giant slalom gold plus combined silver in Pyeongchang, then failed to medal in Beijing before regaining top form with a fifth overall World Cup title.
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