With one last chance to break her ­barren Olympic run stretching back eight years, Mikaela ­Shiffrin ­delivered in style. View image in fullscreen Mikaela Shiffrin with the mountains at her back on her second run in the women’s slalom. She managed to build on her early lead, becoming the second woman to win the Olympic slalom more than once after Switzerland’s Vreni Schneider. “The skiing is what I cared about and, of course, to medal and [to win] gold. Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesShiffrin’s Olympic ledger stripped of context – slalom gold as an 18-year-old prodigy in Sochi, giant slalom gold and combined silver in ­Pyeongchang – would be career-defining for most.

Source: The Guardian February 18, 2026 17:00 UTC