After a rocky start to her Olympics campaign, Mikaela Shiffrin said she was ready to “refocus” on what she called a “fun” super-G race Friday in Beijing.
She did just that.
Shiffrin didn’t win a medal, but she completed the race and, perhaps most importantly, showed herself she could do it despite the challenges of the past week.
“I think today I proved to myself that I can still trust my instincts a bit,” Shiffrin said in a postrace interview on NBC. “And that’s really, really huge.”
Two days after slipping just five seconds into the first of her slalom race, and four days after skiing out 11 seconds into her opening run of the giant slalom, Shiffrin silenced her own doubts and made it down the mountain in the super-G in 1:14.30.
The 11th skier to take the course, Shiffrin had the eighth-best time when she crossed the finish line. While not the podium result she wanted, Shiffrin was all…
