Not the momentum Mikaela Shiffrin hoped to carry into the Olympics.
The world’s best all-around skier lost her balance with a few slalom gates left, en route to sure victory, and tumbled to 27th place in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, on Sunday.
Shiffrin led by 1.09 seconds at the final intermediate split before the uncharacteristic mistake.
She worked her way back up to the missed gate and appeared to straddle it for a DNF, but timing later updated with a finishing time 13 seconds behind winner Petra Vlhova.
The Slovakian ended Shiffrin’s streak of five straight traditional World Cup slalom wins.