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Mikaela Shiffrin Can’t Explain the Reason For ‘Fantastically Failed’ Olympics

The U.S. alpine skiing star will leave Beijing without an individual medal. While she’s been incredibly candid, she can’t find an explanation for her struggles.

BEIJING — American skier Isabella Wright said, “We’ve all been there,” but the truth is that nobody ever has. There has never been a Winter Olympics performance quite like Mikaela Shiffrin’s. She is the best slalom skier in the world and she can’t finish a slalom.

Her last individual race of the Olympics came and went Thursday, and it was like most of the rest: She came and went off the course.