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Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin made it through the downhill leg of the Alpine combined and will get a chance to go for a medal in the slalom run.
Shiffrin went ninth out of 26 skiers on the downhill portion of the two-run event Thursday.
The American’s time of 1 minute, 32.98 seconds has her in fifth place of 12 skiers.
Shiffrin is 0.56 seconds behind current leader Christine Scheyer of Austria.
The slalom leg is scheduled to begin in about 3 1/2 hours on a different slope at the National Alpine Skiing Center.
Shiffrin’s best event for years has been the slalom. She won a gold medal in that discipline at age 18 at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. But she also only made it through five gates in the slalom in Beijing last week.
Shiffrin also did not finish the giant slalom. She was ninth in the super-G and 18th in the downhill. The combined is her fifth individual event of the 2022 Winter Games. She has said she also plans to enter the team event on Saturday.
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