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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Flo Clifford

Mikaela Shiffrin breaks eight-year Olympic drought with brilliant slalom gold

Mikaela Shiffrin won her first Olympic gold in eight years with victory in the slalom - (Getty Images)

Twelve years after winning slalom gold as a teenage starlet in Sochi, the youngest ever Olympic champion in the discipline, Mikaela Shiffrin finally returned to the top step of the podium.

In those 12 years she went from an 18-year-old prodigy to the greatest Alpine skier of all time: 108 World Cup wins and counting, 71 of them in slalom, alongside nine crystal globes and four world titles in the discipline, the most technical of all Alpine events.

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