Mikaela Shiffrin, the world’s best slalom skier, may be the closest thing to a certainty as the Winter Games unfold this month in South Korea. By the time she was 17, she had won her first world slalom title and later added two more. I didn’t think everything was just going to line up the way it did.”Rarely does everything go perfectly in alpine skiing. “My parents used to say and still do, ‘Just smile, even if you don’t feel like it,’” Shiffrin said. Alpine skiing competitions typically hold the speed events before the technical ones, but in Pyeongchang, the technical races will come first.

Source: The Guardian February 10, 2018 12:40 UTC