Mikaela Shiffrin’s 2022 Olympic Games came to an anticlimactic end on Sunday in the bronze-medal race of the wind-delayed mixed team parallel skiing event.
Shiffrin had been hoping to salvage her unexpected time in Beijing with one final shot at a medal as part of the American team, which also included Paula Moltzan, River Radamus and Tommy Ford, in the last Alpine event. Instead, the squad lost to Norway in a tiebreak.
The U.S. team embraced at the bottom of the mountain after discovering they had placed fourth and out of the medals. Still, Shiffrin remained positive after the race, and she praised her teammates in a joint interview.
“I am not disappointed,” Shiffrin said. “I have had a lot of disappointing moments at these Games; today is not one of them. Today is my favorite memory. This was the best possible way that I could imagine ending the Games, skiing with such strong…
