KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Invoking the sort of recovery skills that Bode Miller made famous, American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin made Alpine skiing history Friday as the youngest ever winner of an Olympic slalom gold medal. The 18-year-old Shiffrin
U.S. teen Mikaela Shiffrin wins historic Olympic slalom gold. Shares. Tweets; Stumble. Email; More +. KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Normally so composed, so in control, so not-very-teenlike on and off the slopes, Mikaela Shiffrin suddenly found herself
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia – Mikaela Shiffrin made Alpine skiing history Friday as the youngest ever winner of an Olympic slalom gold medal after making an astonishing recovery midway through her second run.
SOCHI — To Mikaela Shiffrin, one Olympic gold medal is just the beginning. At the next Winter Games, she says she wants five. One day after winning gold in the women's slalom, becoming the youngest skier in Olympic history to do so, Shiffrin, 18, gave
Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States in action during the Women's Slalom during day 14 of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Rosa Khutor Alpine Center on February 21, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty