‘Skiing out’ explained: Why Mikaela Shiffrin was DQ’d in two Winter Olympics events

Merely put, snowboarding out means lacking a gate at any level throughout a ski race. The implications of doing so are prompt disqualification from the occasion even when it spans a number of runs, as slalom, big slalom and the mixed occasion do on the Winter Olympics.

Generally, particularly within the pace disciplines of downhill and super-G, ski outs occur when an athlete loses management and crashes off his or her skis. Shiffrin suffered a minor crash – and was unhurt – throughout her giant slalom run.

Nevertheless, skiers may also ski out even with out crashing in the event that they stray too far exterior the racing line, as Shiffrin did two days later in the slalom.