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Mikaela Shiffrin is back at the Olympics with a fearsome, familiar foe: Wind

YANQING, China — The untamable foe that looms over Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympic quest ripped across Xiaohaituo Mountain on Saturday, two days before the American Alpine wizard drops into competition.

Shiffrin is, arguably, the greatest female ski racer on the planet. She was a prodigy in 2014, then a multi-time Olympic champ in 2018, and now, even after four years of obstacles and heartache, perhaps the best version of herself. She’s mature and introspective, ready for life as NBC’s face of these Games, and for a medal chase that could vault her further into record books.

She also knows, from experience four years ago and this week, that nature might intervene.