Mikaela Shiffrin Redefines Olympic Legacy With Slalom Gold

Mikaela Shiffrin can now leave her Olympics demons behind.

For in her final Olympic race of these 2026 Milano Cortina Games, the one that carried extraordinary pressure for Shiffrin given that it’s her best discipline, and she hadn’t won an Olympic medal in eight races going back eight years, Shiffrin brought her game to Cortina d’Ampezzo on Wednesday, winning the slalom by a margin of 1.50 seconds, the largest margin in any alpine skiing event since 1998.

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In Shiffrin’s first run...