Mikaela Shiffrin finally broke through for the third Olympic gold medal of her storied career by outclassing the competition in Wednesday's women's slalom. The skiing star was able to put some bad memories in the rearview mirror along with her opponents as she breezed to redemption.
Shiffrin has been one of the premier athletes in the sport for more than a decade and looked to be on a trajectory for routine Olympic success after she captured a gold in the 2014 Sochi Game and another in Pyeongchang four years later. But a disastrous showing in Beijing in 2022 that saw her go home without a medal and crash in half of her six events, plus missing out on the podium in her first two events in Milan Cortina, prolonged the wait.
