No excuses for Shiffrin after Olympic team combined flop

The US ski star was set up for a serious tilt at combined gold by a table-topping downhill time from her partner Breezy Johnson. But the most successful skier of all time -- with a record 108 World Cup victories to her name -- could only manage the 15th fastest time in the afternoon's slalom. Her run was a full second slower than the fastest, that of Germany's silver medallist Emma Aicher, and left her and Johnson fourth, outside the medal places. "I'm careful not to make excuses but it comes...