Pyeongchang, South Korea • Back at the last Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin exuberantly talked about chasing five gold medals this time around. Now it turns out she’ll only enter three races at the 2018 Games.
The two-time gold medalist dropped out of Wednesday’s downhill race so she can focus on the Alpine combined event that was moved to the following day.
Shiffrin’s decision was announced Monday by U.S. Ski and Snowboard shortly after race officials said they were moving the combined up a day to Thursday because of strong winds in Friday’s forecast.
The downhill is Wednesday, so the 22-year-old American suddenly would have had to race on consecutive days.