{"id":279394,"date":"2026-02-07T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/279394\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:47:10","slug":"live-updates-first-gold-medal-of-the-winter-olympics-goes-to-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/279394\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates: First gold medal of the Winter Olympics goes to Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap26038609949385a.JPG?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"US star skier Mikaela Shiffrin speaks at a press conference on Saturday.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlcit8k7006i3b6rsq4thvnm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Mikaela Shiffrin looked at the picture to her right, propped up as she held a press conference before her Games began. In it, Shiffrin is wearing her Olympic race uniform \u2013 the rings spread boldly across her chest. It is from 2022 in Beijing.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlck1wi2006t3b6rev8o3aax@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cNice to see a picture where I was on my feet,\u201d Shiffrin deadpanned to a packed room. \u201cI think that deserves a bigger laugh.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlck0xq0006r3b6reboiyvqq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Beijing is Shiffrin\u2019s albatross here, wrapped around her neck until she sheds it and replaces it with a medal.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlck3a78006u3b6rh8kdac94@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Shiffrin is the most accomplished skier in history, with a record 108 World Cup victories, two Olympic gold medals and one Olympic silver. But in Beijing, she entered six events, failed to finish three of them and left without a single medal, and to the casual observer, at least, that is their memory of her.\n    <\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1369048048.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"Shiffrin fell during the Women's Giant Slalom on day three of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Yanqing, China on February 7, 2022.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2311\" width=\"3466\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlck11dj006s3b6rp3gs8i5e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Older, wiser and having examined both the technical issues that caused her failure and the emotional baggage she needed to work through, Shiffrin was thoughtful as she answered the question she knew was coming.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlck4hwi006v3b6rixooip4a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI do wish that the broader audience that does tune in for the Games had a bit more of a picture and understanding of what goes on in the sport on a daily basis,\u201d she said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote_block-quote__text  vossi-pull-quote_block-quote__text inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\">\n                    \u201cYou know \u2013 to know that I\u2019ve raced, I don\u2019t know how many races this season, but on the other side of things, the Olympics gives us a chance to showcase ourselves and our sport to the world, and so whether you\u2019re watching once every four years or every single weekend of the World Cup, to have the chance to make that connection at all, I think is a gift.\u2019\u2019\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlck4qw5006w3b6rm00exwgt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Shiffrin will race in three events here. The first coming on Tuesday in the team combined, but she will also race the slalom and giant slalom.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikaela Shiffrin looked at the picture to her right, propped up as she held a press conference before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-279394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}