Mikaela Shiffrin Says She Is Ready For ‘Fun’ Olympic Super-G
Feb 10, 2022, 4:15 PM
Mikaela Shiffrin of Team United States looks on prior to the Women's Slalom Run 1 on day five of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Alpine Ski Centre on February 09, 2022 in Yanqing, China. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
(Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
BEIJING (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin is ready to have some “fun” when she returns to Olympic action in the super-G.
Shiffrin posted on Twitter early Friday morning in China to say she’s grateful “to have the opportunity to refocus on a new race, in the sport that I love so much.”
Well I’ve had a lot of support over the last 48 hours and I have to thank everyone for that.
Today is Super G, and Super G is fun. I can’t express how grateful I am to have the opportunity to refocus on a new race, in the sport that I love so much. Onward.— Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) February 10, 2022
The two-time Olympic gold medalist is off to a rough start so far at the Beijing Games.
The 26-year-old American went off-course about 10 seconds into the giant slalom on Monday and after about half as much time in the slalom Wednesday.
She won the slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the giant slalom at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
