PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Finally, it was an ideal day for skiing.
American Mikaela Shiffrin celebrated by using a hard-charging final run to win the women's giant slalom Thursday. It's the first of several Olympic titles she hopes to earn at the Pyeongchang Games.
The 22-year-old trailed by 0.20 seconds following her first run, but she powered through a bumpy course on her second run to win by 0.39 seconds. Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel won silver at Yongpyong Alpine Center while Federica Brignone of Italy got bronze.
"I don't know when it was, at some point today after the first run I thought, like, 'I can really win this,'" Shiffrin said.