Alpine skiing-Shiffrin will bounce back predicts Gisin
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[February 18, 2022] By
Simon Evans
YANQING, China (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin will bounce back from
her miserable medalless Olympic Games and return to the peak of
Alpine skiing, double gold medalist Michelle Gisin had predicted.
Switzerland's Gisin retained her gold medal in combined on Thursday
delivering a superb slalom run while Shiffrin, incredibly, skied out
on the Ice River slalom course for the third time in these Games.
Shiffrin competed in all five races at Beijing but far from winning
medals in each of them -- as some had predicted -- she ended with
one top ten finish (in super-G) and three Did Not Finish results.
"I feel really sorry for her, those were horrible Olympic Games for
her," said Gisin.
"But I told her, I feel pretty badass about winning one slalom in my
career but she has 47, so she is 47 times as badass as I am," she
added.
Gisin, who has been part of the hugely successful Swiss team that
has won five golds in Alpine ski, said she expects fortune to swing
back in favour of the American.
"The wheel turns you know. She managed to stay on top of the wheel
for an incredibly long time and now it's a low. Someone asked me a
couple of days ago how I feel about that and I said, 'it's just
normal'.
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Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States in action. REUTERS/Denis
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"The wheel, it keeps turning and sometimes you are
up there, sometimes you are down there and that's just how normal
athletes and human beings live it. For her, sure it's really hard
because she was always on top and then you fall down a lot. But I am
extremely sure that she will bounce back and be very strong again,
soon," she added.
A six-time world champion, Shiffrin won gold in giant slalom in
Pyeongchang after winning gold in slalom at Sochi in 2014. She also
claimed a silver medal in the combined four years ago in South
Korea.
She still has a chance of leaving Beijing with a medal as she is
expected to feature in the United States mixed team squad for
Saturday's parallel slalom event.
(Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
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