Mikaela Shiffrin Dominates Slalom Field for Olympic Gold

Mikaela Shiffrin, the greatest ski racer of all time, didn't win a medal at the last Winter Olympics and was left off the podium in Giant Slalom and the Team Combined races at Milan-Cortina.

Today, February 18, Shiffrin shook the proverbial monkey off her back and raced to Olympic glory in the Women's Slalom, her most dominant event.

Shiffrin not only won Gold, she absolutely crushed the field. Winning a race by a second in Slalom is impressive. Winning a race by 1.5 seconds, as Shiffrin did in the Slalom today, is practically unheard of, at least at the Olympic level.

In fact, Shiffrin's 1.5-second victory is the biggest winning margin in Olympic Slalom since Swiss skier Vreni Schneider won by 1.68 seconds at the 1998 games in Calgary.

The field just couldn't handle Shiffrin's speed, precision, and fluidity. Camille Rast of Switzerland won the Silver, and Sweden's Anna Swenn Larsson secured bronze.

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With today's victory, Shiffrin now has three Olympic Gold medals and one Silver in addition to her record-setting 108 World Cup victories.

Shiffrin told NBC in a post-race interview that she was emotional after clinching the Gold medal due to the loss of her father in 2020:

“This is a moment I’ve been pretty scared of for a pretty long time, because … every new experience in life is an experience that he’s not here to see, not in person,” Shiffrin said. “And I figured, might as well have a spiritual, spiritual moment and just, I don’t know, just think about him.”