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02/10/26 08:07:00
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02/10 08:05 CST Raedler and Huber of Austria win team combined at the Olympics,
Mikaela Shiffrin is 4th
Raedler and Huber of Austria win team combined at the Olympics, Mikaela
Shiffrin is 4th
By ANDREW DAMPF
AP Sports Writer
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) --- Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber of Austria
won gold in the new team combined event at the Milan Cortina Olympics on
Tuesday when Mikaela Shiffrin surprisingly crossed fourth after wasting a
first-run lead by teammate Breezy Johnson.
Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup racer of all time with a record 108
victories --- 71 of them in slalom, also a record --- has now gone seven
straight Olympic races without a medal.
After taking two golds and silver from her first two Olympics, Shiffrin also
didn't win a medal in any of her six races at the Beijing Games four years ago.
Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher of Germany earned silver and Paula
Moltzan and Jacqueline Wiles of the U.S. took bronze.
Shiffrin lost time to the leaders at every checkpoint and crossed 0.31 seconds
behind --- missing a medal by finishing 0.06 behind the other American team. In
the finish area, Johnson --- who was coming off a gold in the individual
downhill --- embraced Shiffrin, while the Austrians and other podium finishers
began celebrating.
The team combined consists of one racer competing in a downhill run and another
in a slalom run, with the times from the two added together to determine the
results.
Shiffrin still has her individual events of giant slalom and slalom to come.
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