Mikaela Shiffrin’s nightmarish Beijing Olympics continued on Thursday when she tripped on a gate and toppled to the snow in the women’s combined. It was the third race she has failed to finish in the last two weeks.
Shiffrin showed good rhythm in the opening portion of the slalom, the second half of the combined event, but about 10 gates into the run she lost her balance as she was beginning to navigate a combination of gates known as a flush.
Last week, Shiffrin did not complete her best events in the first two races of the Games, the giant slalom and slalom.