"It felt very good, really good skiing. I was also a bit on the limit, there were probably three different times on the course where I thought, I could easily be pushed off the course right now,"
"I felt like I nailed it with some question marks. I have big energy today."
"I didn't quite find a comfort level that allows me to produce full speed,"
"I'm going to have to learn what to do, wh"
Mikaela Shiffrin won slalom gold in her final race of the 2026 Winter Games at Cortina d'Ampezzo, opening a 0.82-second first-run lead and expanding it to a 1.5-second margin to secure victory. The gold ends an eight-event Olympic winless stretch that included six events in Beijing 2022 and is her fourth Olympic medal, complementing 108 World Cup wins and prior Olympic medals in 2014 and 2018. Shiffrin has faced severe injury, PTSD and deep grief after her father's 2020 death, and competed under intense expectations with dramatic music played before her runs.
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