American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom at the world championships on Thursday, a day after her unexpected split with longtime coach Mike Day.
Shiffrin overcame a mistake near the end of the race to hold on to her first-run lead. When she saw her time, she covered her mouth with her hands, then collapsed to the snow in joy, relief and celebration.
“It’s been definitely some high levels of stress these days," Shiffrin said."It was very, very difficult today to keep the focus and keep the intensity on the right level.” “So it’s it’s just a little bit sad how it came down," Shiffrin said, adding that she was hoping to give Day"the time and the notice” to figure out his own plans before the end of the season but that his sudden departure was “difficult for all of us to imagine” after “being such a tight group, really a family.”
“I felt my skiing was not relaxed enough," Worley said."I didn’t want to go for a medal, I wanted to go for the win." Brignone, who won gold in the combined event that opened the worlds last week, recovered from illness over the past days. “I feel really emotional right now,” Shiffrin said. ”It’s unbelievable, it’s 12 hundredths, it’s really a small margin. On the bottom I just went blind and was like, just ski faster. I don’t know how, just do it.”
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