{"id":8360,"date":"2026-02-18T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/usas-shiffrin-wins-slalom-gold-in-emphatic-style\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:10:05","slug":"usas-shiffrin-wins-slalom-gold-in-emphatic-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/usas-shiffrin-wins-slalom-gold-in-emphatic-style\/","title":{"rendered":"USA&#8217;s Shiffrin wins slalom gold in emphatic style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByJess AndersonBBC Sport journalist in Cortina<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published10 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>American star Mikaela Shiffrin cemented her status as the greatest alpine skier of all time as she won Olympic slalom gold in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years on from winning the title in Sochi aged 18, Shiffrin stormed to victory with an overall time of 1:39:10, a significant 1.50 seconds ahead of second place to become a three-time Olympic champion.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old put herself in pole position with a time of 47.13 seconds in the first run, a gap of 0.82 seconds to second-place Lena Duerr.<\/p>\n<p>The German was the only skier to finish within one second of Shiffrin but she straddled the first gate on her second run to put herself out of medal contention.<\/p>\n<p>That left Shiffrin with what was ultimately an exhibition run to take gold and she completed the run in 51.97 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland&#x27;s Camille Rast won silver while Sweden&#x27;s Anna Swenn Larsson took bronze.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/articles\/c338y36kngzo\">\n<p>Day-by-day guide to the Winter Olympics<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published5 hours ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/winter-olympics\/italy-2026\/schedule\/2026-02-06\">\n<p>Full schedule including times of medal events<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/winter-olympics\/italy-2026\/medals\">\n<p>Winter Olympics 2026 medal table<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Winter Olympics 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6-22 February<\/p>\n<p>Milan-Cortina<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/iplayer\/episodes\/m002gjj5\/winter-olympics-2026\">Watch on iPlayer<\/a><a href=\"\/sounds\">Listen on Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch two live streams and highlights on BBC iPlayer (UK only), updates on BBC Radio 5 Live and live text commentary and video highlights on the BBC Sport website and app. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/articles\/cn7je4nxxv7o\">Full coverage guide<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/winter-sports\">Winter Sports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/alpine-skiing\">Alpine Skiing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/winter-olympics\">Winter Olympics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA&#x27;s Shiffrin wins slalom gold in emphatic styleImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Shiffrin breezed to gold by a significant marginByJess AndersonBBC Sport journalist in CortinaPublished10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}