The Latest Breaking News from Mikaela Shiffrin

BEIJING — The 1.7-mile downhill course plunges through barren brown hillsides, past haggard trees and towering gray rock faces, all transformed by a coating of snow from a storm that passed through a few days earlier.

Yanqing (China) (AFP) - Mikaela Shiffrin got a boost Tuesday in her hunt for an elusive medal at the Beijing Olympics when she had an invaluable run-out in the downhill.

BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:

Kamila Valieva took to the ice amid a swirl of controversy and elsewhere there were golds, blunders and much more

This year's Olympic games began with two back-to-back mishaps for American Mikaela Shiffrin, widely considered one of the world's top alpine skiers. The two-time gold medalist did not finish either her giant slalom or slalom runs, and showed her devastation by sitting on the hill, with her head in her…

Mikaela Shiffrin says she will make her Olympic downhill debut at the Beijing Games

Slalom gold medalist Petra Vlhova is leaving the Beijing Olympics early due to an inflamed left ankle tendon and will miss the Alpine combined event in which she would have been a challenger to Mikaela Shiffrin

BEIJING — The world’s most famous skier had kicked off her skis and dropped her poles. Sitting alone in the snow, she buried her head in her hands.

Updates from day eight of the winter Games as Jaclyn Narracott took Australia’s first ever medal in skeleton

The past week was simultaneously an exciting time for sports and a brutal moment to be a baseball fan. At the Winter Olympics, elite athletes Chloe Kim, Nathan Chen and Eileen Gu won gold medals. Mikaela Shiffrin struggled but inspired millions with her perspective and vulnerability. Even though ...

Mikaela Shiffrin made it across the finish line of The Rock course on the Alpine hill for the first time in three races in the Beijing Games. She placed ninth in the super-G, well off the pace set by gold medalist Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland.