BEIJING (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin equipped for the Olympic Alpine mixed through environment the quickest time in a downhill coaching consultation on Wednesday.
The 2-time Olympic champion thus far has didn’t win a medal on the Beijing Video games, snowboarding out within the large slalom and the slalom — the 2 occasions she has gold medals in — and completing 9th within the super-G and 18th in Tuesday’s downhill.
Subsequent up is Thursday’s mixed race, which provides the days from one downhill run and one slalom run. Shiffrin is the sector champion in mixed and in addition received silver within the tournament on the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games.
The 26-year-old Shiffrin is a ways much less skilled within the downhill however completed Wednesday’s coaching consultation 0.93 seconds forward of Wendy Holdener of Switzerland.
“I imply, in fact everybody concept Mikaela may have a medal till now however that shouldn’t be a nasty factor,” mentioned Holdener, who received bronze within the slalom closing week so as to add to her silver in that tournament from Pyeongchang. “It presentations that snowboarding is a in reality tricky game. You need to carry out on a daily basis, you don’t understand how the direction is, how the slope is, so it’s in reality tricky. I suppose that’s the explanation.”
Holdener additionally received bronze within the Alpine mixed in Pyeongchang, in the back of Shiffrin and Swiss teammate Michelle Gisin.
Gisin completed one 2d in the back of Shiffrin on Wednesday, in fourth. Ester Ledecka was once 3rd, 0.94 in the back of Shiffrin. Ledecka is making an attempt to win a 2d tournament at a 2d immediately Olympics after effectively protecting her gold in skiing’s parallel large slalom.
Most effective 14 skiers took phase within the coaching consultation on Wednesday, with 12 of the ones indexed at the get started record opting out.
