Winter Olympics: The latest from PyeongChang

On her final run, Shiffrin didn’t have her usual charge.

Germany, with Sochi 2014 gold medallist Eric Frenzel and world champion Johannes Rydzek among their starters, are looking for a rare medal sweep in the Nordic combined, involving ski jumping and a 10km cross-country race. Meta Hrovat (SLO), a fellow competitor at Innsbruck 2012, was 14.

Before her first run, which had left her 0.48 seconds behind leader Holdener, Shiffrin vomited at the start gate.

Shiffrin’s mother said skipping the Super-G isn’t a big deal, however. With the course featuring tight turns, Shiffrin’s excellent technique was a particular advantage. In her second run, Shiffrin didn’t appear to make any major mistakes, but toward the end of her run, fell off the gold-medal pace and slipped into second place. “And I beat myself. today”.

When she woke up Thursday, she said, she wasn’t particularly nervous. I’m not sure if I’m actually going to have that energy to do that. “And I know it’s a comparison between sports and I don’t think there’s a sport in the Winter Olympics where you can win 23 medals across three or four Olympics. I’m feeling much better, much more like myself”.

Vonn has had plenty of time to rest and to pick and choose her times to train as she focuses on her events – the downhill, super-G and Alpine combined, which take place in the span of a week beginning Saturday.

Hansdotter, a 32-year-old veteran of the World Cup circuit, will become the second Swedish woman to win Olympic slalom following Anja Paerson in Turin in 2006. She won the Olympic slalom four years ago in Sochi. I’ll use this time to continue to train and refocus on Wednesday’s slalom race.

The Austrian, ninth in Thursday’s downhill, put down a storming run under clear skies at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre to beat Swiss Beat Feuz, bronze medalist in the downhill, by 0.13 seconds.

In addition to her seemingly limitless talent, the bubbly speedster has a surname not uncommon in the Jewish community. And if that’s not enough of a resume for you, she’s also a four-time victor of the World Cup in the slalom discipline. “Aksel can ski for many years to come and still be fast”.

Bronze medal victor Brignone admitted that she had to relax ahead of her second run in order to produce a better performance. So now we got the ball rolling.

“We’ve been through this before in the World Cup quite often”, said USA coach Paul Kristofic. “I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I would be”.