{"id":12386,"date":"2026-02-19T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/12386\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:55:11","slug":"us-ski-star-shiffrin-beats-swiss-world-champion-rast-to-win-olympic-slalom-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/12386\/","title":{"rendered":"US ski star Shiffrin beats Swiss world champion Rast to win Olympic slalom gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikaela Shiffrin won Olympic slalom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/gold\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gold<\/a> on Wednesday to end her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260218-shiffrin-primed-for-olympic-gold-after-rapid-first-slalom-run\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eight-year Winter Games medal drought<\/a> and bring some solace to the US ski team.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin claimed the third Olympic title of her career, and her first since giant slalom gold at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, with a rapid combined time of 1min 39.10sec.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old already had a lead of 0.82sec after a first run she said she &#8220;nailed&#8221; in glorious conditions, and that handy cushion enabled her to cruise to victory.<\/p>\n<p>She finished a whopping 1.50sec ahead of world champion Camille Rast who took the first medal of these Games for the Swiss women&#8217;s ski team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/sweden\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sweden<\/a>&#8216;s Anna Swenn Larsson rounded out the podium to claim the first Olympic medal of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin has banished memories of both her last Olympics in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/beijing\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Beijing<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 where she failed to pick up a single medal from six races and didn&#8217;t even finish three\u00a0\u2013 and her disappointing displays in the team combined and giant slalom in northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/italy\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She came to Cortina as a red-hot favourite to claim at least one gold due to her sensational form this season which has taken her all-time record of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Cup<\/a> wins to 108.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin has already won the slalom title in the World Cup after coming out on top in seven of this season&#8217;s races, finishing just 0.14sec behind Rast in Kranjska Gora the one time she didn&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20260209-lindsey-vonn-crashes-out-in-brutal-end-to-olympic-comeback-dream\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lindsey Vonn crashes out in brutal end to Olympic comeback dream<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gold is a happy ending to a difficult Olympics for both Shiffrin and the US ski team, whose Games were dominated by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20260209-lindsey-vonn-crashes-out-in-brutal-end-to-olympic-comeback-dream\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Lindsey Vonn&#8217;s horror crash<\/a> and leg break in the downhill race which opened proceedings in Cortina.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikaela Shiffrin won Olympic slalom gold on Wednesday to end her eight-year Winter Games medal drought and bring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[937,309,310,82,41,17,533],"class_list":{"0":"post-12386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-italy","10":"tag-skiing","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-swiss","13":"tag-switzerland","14":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}