Mikaela Shiffrin disappointingly could not add to her medal count or to her title as the most decorated American skier in history Tuesday.
Shiffrin failed to earn her third career Olympic gold medal — and first since 2018 — when she and Breezy Johnson finished in fourth place in the new team combined event at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.
Austria’s Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber instead grabbed the gold, while Emma Aicher and Kira Weidle-Winkelmann of Germany took silver and the American duo of Jackie Wiles and Paula Motlzan finished third.
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It would have marked the second gold of these Games in Italy for Johnson, who had already captured the women’s downhill event over the weekend, and she had posted the fastest time in the downhill portion of the combined competition earlier Tuesday.
But Shiffrin was unable to maintain the lead in the slalom with the 15th fastest time in her event, more than a full second slower than Aicher.
The 30-year-old Shiffrin had been shut out from the podium over six events in 2022 in Beijing after the Colorado native took gold in the slalom in 2014 in Sochi and in the giant slalom in 2018 in PyeongChang, where she also earned a silver medal in the alpine combined competition.