Austria wins women's Alpine combined after Mikaela Shiffrin struggles in slalom

"Johnson held up her end of the bargain. Two days after winning gold in the women's downhill, she tore through the same Olimpia della Tofane course in 1:36.59 to post the fastest time in the downhill portion of the event. That put teammate Shiffrin in prime position to anchor the U.S. in the slalom portion, which was set up on the same slope."

""It's both the most and least pressure that you ever feel as a racer," said Johnson before Shiffrin's race. "It's the most because we as racers intimately know what it is to have an Olympic dream, and to hold somebody else's in your hand and try to ski fast with it is a lot of pressure. "But then also to have somebody else be able to carry the torch halfway and not have to do the whole thing yourself makes it the least pressure.""

Austrian teammates Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber captured gold in the women's Alpine team combined at Milan-Cortina after mixed downhill and slalom runs. Germany's Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher took silver, and the U.S. duo Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan earned bronze. Breezy Johnson posted the fastest downhill time, clocking 1:36.59 on the Olimpia della Tofane course two days after winning downhill gold. Teammate Mikaela Shiffrin skied the slalom anchor tentatively and finished 15th, dropping the U.S. pair to fourth overall. The slalom course saw 10 skiers fail to finish, and the U.S. pair finished 0.31 seconds behind the winners. Mikaela Shiffrin is the most decorated skier in history.

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