How to watch Mikaela Shiffrin in the women’s combined event at the 2022 Winter Olympics

Previous to the Winter Video games, the concept that Shiffrin, the unquestioned face of ski racing in 2022, may depart Beijing with out a person medal was unthinkable. However that’s the truth dealing with the 26-year-old American if issues don’t go her means within the mixed, an occasion by which she is the defending silver medalist.

Happily, the mixed occasion performs to her distinctive strengths in contrast to some other self-discipline. Whereas Shiffrin is usually thought to be a technical skier – her resume in slalom is unmatched by anybody in historical past – she’s additionally a really succesful downhill skier when she will get the prospect to get follow reps, which she’s performed 4 of the final 5 days (in case you embody the ladies’s downhill race itself).

That follow appears to be working. Shiffrin had the quickest time within the last mixed downhill coaching Tuesday night time. If she will be able to replicate that in the actual factor, her podium potential would hinge on simply staying upright in the course of the slalom (she’s skied out in each her races on the “Ice River” technical course up to now, in order that’s no assure.)

Put merely, even in her present competitors kind, Shiffrin enters the ladies’s mixed because the prohibitive favourite for gold.