BEIJING — Mikaela Shiffrin finished ninth in the Olympics’ Super-G, which was impressive considering open books are not very aerodynamic. Shiffrin followed her race with her usual kind of media availability. She treated it like a therapy session, except she should have charged us.
“I had a dream last night that was just repetitive the whole night long,” Shiffrin said. “And I kept kind of waking up from it, and then going back to sleep. And it just kept happening: that I skied out on the fifth gate. And it really felt pretty awful to have that dream again and again.