Miserable day on slopes for American stars Mikaela Shiffrin and Red Gerard

BEIJING — It was a mis­er­able day on the moun­tains out­side Bei­jing for Amer­i­can stars Mikaela Shiffrin and Red Gerard.

Shiffrin’s open­ing race in the Bei­jing Olympics end­ed quick­ly with a rare mis­take and a rare DNF — Did Not Fin­ish. Favored to defend her gold medal in the giant slalom, Shiffrin instead crashed out a few sec­onds and five gates into the race. She lost con­trol com­ing around a left-turn gate and fell onto her hip on a course known as The Ice Riv­er at the Yan­qing Alpine Ski­ing Center.

The missed gate meant she was done ear­ly in the open­ing run of the two-leg event.

While Shiffrin is expect­ed to have four more chances to add to her col­lec­tion of three Olympic medals, includ­ing two golds, she said Monday’s wipe­out will always stick with her.

“I won’t ever get over this,” Shiffrin said. “I’ve nev­er got­ten over any.”

Her stun­ning exit was her first DNF in a GS in more than four years, a streak of 30 races. Her last one was three weeks before she won the gold at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

“That’s what dri­ves me to try to keep work­ing and improv­ing, so I can try to make it (so) those things don’t hap­pen,” she said. “But some­times they still do hap­pen and, unfor­tu­nate­ly, it hap­pened today. I felt like there was a lot to look for­ward to, but, well, now we need to reset.”

Shiffrin plans to race again Wednes­day in the slalom, which she won as an 18-year-old at the 2014 Sochi Games. It’ll be her next chance to become the first Alpine ski rac­er from the Unit­ed States to win three Olympic golds across a career.

“I’m not going to cry about this because that’s just wast­ing ener­gy,” she said.

Sara Hec­tor of Swe­den won the gold with a two-run time of 1 minute, 55.69 sec­onds. Fed­er­i­ca Brignone of Italy took sil­ver and Lara Gut-Behra­mi of Switzer­land earned bronze.

On the slopestyle course, Ger­ard not only failed to defend his gold medal, but he was knocked off the podi­um entire­ly. A run by Cana­di­an rival Mark McMor­ris dropped Ger­ard into fourth.

“There’s noth­ing you can real­ly com­plain about and I don’t want to be a judge or any­thing,” Ger­ard said. “There were a lot of land­ed runs out there, and it’s hard. But yeah, I would’ve liked to have been up there for sure.”

CANCER SURVIVER WINS GOLD

Three years after feel­ing a can­cer­ous lump in his neck, Cana­di­an snow­board­er Max Par­rot com­plet­ed an inspir­ing come­back by win­ning the gold medal in men’s slopestyle on a course that includes repli­cas of the Great Wall of China.

Parrot’s vic­to­ry run was high­light­ed by his sec­ond jump, when he approached the kick­er from an angle instead of straight on — the only com­peti­tor to do so — and flipped back­ward for 1440 degrees of spin, then stomped the landing.

“By far, the biggest run of my entire career,” he said.

Just like his bat­tle back from being diag­nosed with Hodgkin lym­phoma 10 months after win­ning the sil­ver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. He under­went 12 chemother­a­py treat­ments dur­ing the span of six months.

“I had to stop every­thing to fight,” he said. “I went through hell. It was the first time I ever put my snow­board in the clos­et. I felt like a lion in a cage.”

Su Yim­ing of Chi­na earned the sil­ver and Mark McMor­ris of Cana­da took the bronze.

McMor­ris was hap­py for his countryman.

“Max beat (exple­tive) can­cer and it’s pret­ty sick to see him do well,” McMor­ris said. “And he didn’t come to any slopestyle this year. It’s not his strong suit. Big air is, and he just won slopestyle today.”

MEN’S DOWNHILL

Beat Feuz of Switzer­land won the gold medal in the men’s down­hill, the one major vic­to­ry that was miss­ing from his impres­sive career accomplishments.

“I can’t think of any­thing more beau­ti­ful than fly­ing home with a gold medal around my neck,” said Feuz, the four-time reign­ing World Cup down­hill cham­pi­on who won the sil­ver medal in super‑G and the bronze in down­hill at the 2018 Olympics.

The diminu­tive down­hiller edged 41-year-old Johan Clarey of France, with two-time Olympic cham­pi­on Matthias May­er of Aus­tria get­ting bronze.

Amer­i­can ski­er Mikaela Shiffrin’s boyfriend, Alek­sander Aamodt Kilde of Nor­way, was fifth.

GOLDEN WÜST

Dutch speed­skater Ireen Wüst became the first ath­lete to win indi­vid­ual gold medals at five dif­fer­ent Olympics when she took the 1,500 meters in an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 53.28 sec­onds at the Ice Rib­bon oval.

She now has six gold medals, five in indi­vid­ual events that are even­ly dis­trib­uted over each of the Olympics she’s com­pet­ed in. She’s the most- dec­o­rat­ed speed­skater in Win­ter Olympic his­to­ry with 12 medals.

“I don’t know what it is. I just see the rings and some­thing mag­i­cal hap­pens,” said the 35-year-old Wüst, who plans to retire after the Bei­jing Games.

SHORT TRACK MAYHEM

Ren Ziwei of Chi­na sur­vived a wild fin­ish to win the men’s 1,000 meters in short track speed­skat­ing. Liu Shaolin San­dor of Hun­gary crossed the line first but was penal­ized twice and earned a yel­low card. That ele­vat­ed Ren, who crossed sec­ond, to the gold medal.

Liu appeared to bump Ren in tak­ing the lead late in the race. Ren grabbed Liu approach­ing the fin­ish line. Liu still man­aged to cross first before going down. The ref­er­ee assessed the penal­ties to Liu.

Ear­li­er, Ari­an­na Fontana of Italy bur­nished her lega­cy as short track’s most dec­o­rat­ed skater with her sec­ond Olympic medal in Bei­jing, the gold in the women’s 500. She let out a yell as she crossed the line to earn her 10th career medal.

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