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Shiffrin's Olympic woes surface again in Cortina

Mikaela Shiffrin has extended her Olympic slump with a fourth-place finish in the new team combined event at the Milan-Cortina Games after Breezy Johnson had set her up beautifully to strike gold for the US by winning the downhill leg.

It meant Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup racer of all-time with a record 108 victories — 71 of them in slalom, also a record — has now gone seven straight Olympic races without a medal.

"I didn't quite find a comfort level that allows me to produce full speed," Shiffrin said after Tuesday's race had concluded.

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