CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Austria’s Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber received ladies’s staff mixed Olympic gold on Tuesday as overwhelming U.S. favorites Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin missed out on the rostrum in a serious shock.
Germany’s Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher took the silver, 0.05 behind, and Jacqueline Wiles and Paula Moltzan completed third for america on a slalom piste set by the Austrian coach.
World and Olympic downhill champion Johnson and dominant slalom skier Shiffrin completed fourth — lacking a medal by 0.06 of a second — after trying set to repeat their 2025 world championship win.
Johnson was quickest within the downhill leg however Shiffrin, winner of seven out of eight slaloms this season and essentially the most profitable World Cup skier of all time, was solely fifteenth within the slalom run on Cortina d’Ampezzo’s Olimpia delle Tofane piste after shedding the benefit early on.
Shiffrin arrived on the 2022 Beijing Video games as favourite to win a fistful of medals however left empty-handed. She has two extra possibilities in big slalom and slalom.
The fourth place additionally ended Johnson’s hopes of a “double double” — holding each the world downhill and staff mixed titles and including Olympic golds in each.
The silver was Aicher’s second of the Video games after she completed runner-up within the downhill. Remarkably, the German skied the slalom leg on Tuesday.
–Reuters, particular to Area Degree Media
