- American trying to add third gold to Olympic haul
- 26-year-old loses control on left-turn gate
Mikaela Shiffrin’s bid for a record medal haul at the Winter Olympics got off to a rocky start on Monday morning when the American star missed a gate early in the first run of the giant slalom and was disqualified.
The 26-year-old overall World Cup leader, the seventh racer out of the starting gate, was unable to hold the edge of her ski early on the steep technical course known as the Ice River and skied out five turns in, falling on her left hip and ending her Olympic title defense only seconds into her Beijing debut.
