USA's Johnson sets up Shiffrin for tilt at Olympic combined gold
American Johnson showed why she is the new Olympic downhill champion by finishing with a time of 1min 36.59sec, 0.06sec ahead of Ariane Raedler of Austria's second team.
That is a slender lead but Johnson has been paired with Shiffrin, the most successful skier of all time making her debut at these Olympics in the slalom run -- her specialist event -- which starts at 1300 GMT.
Shiffrin will be raring to go on the Olimpia delle Tofane piste, hoping to banish tough memories of her disastrous last...