Tag: Breezy Johnson
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Mark Kiszla: Mikaela Shiffrin again wearing thorny GOAT horns of doubt at Olympics
MILAN — She’s the GOAT who chokes on Olympic slopes. Mikaela Shiffrin was painfully reminded it’s nearly impossible to ski with a nervous heart in your throat and the five Olympic rings shackled tightly around your boots. In a new event that seemed invented for her benefit, presenting a golden opportunity to cure a wicked…
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Mark Kiszla: The mountain doesn’t care. It laughed at skier Lindsey Vonn’s plans for a fairy-tale ending in Italy.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – Every ski racer has a plan until the mountain wrecks ’em at 60 mph. American downhiller Breezy Johnson was sizzling Sunday, screaming down the mountain to win a gold medal. But what will leave the impossible-to-erase marks on our memory from this race are the agonizing shrieks from teammate Lindsey Vonn,…