American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin triumphed in the slalom at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. The favorite defeated Switzerland's Camille Rast and Sweden's Anna Swenn Larsson, ending an eight-year gap in winning Olympic gold medals. The competition provided huge emotions, including the sporting drama of Lena Duerr, who went off course at the first gate of the second run, and Shiffrin's moving performance, dedicating the success to her late father.
American alpine skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin confirmed her dominance by winning the gold medal in slalom at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Games. Shiffrin already led after the first run with an advantage of 0.82 seconds over the second competitor. In the final run, she maintained concentration, ultimately beating Switzerland's Camille Rast by nearly one and a half seconds. The bronze medal was won by Sweden's Anna Swenn Larsson. For Shiffrin, this marks a return to the highest Olympic podium for the first time since 2018, which the athlete herself described as a moment of personal redemption after unsuccessful starts in Beijing. Mikaela Shiffrin has gone down in sports history as the youngest Olympic slalom champion, winning her first title in Sochi in 2014 at just 18 years old. Since then, she has become the most decorated athlete in World Cup history, breaking the records of the legendary Ingemar Stenmark. The second run of the competition brought huge disappointment for the German team. Lena Duerr, holding second place at the halfway point, made a fatal error and <przypis title=