By ANDREW DAMPF, Associated Press Sports Writer<\/p>\n
CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber of Austria won gold in the new team combined event at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday when\u00a0Mikaela Shiffrin<\/a>\u00a0surprisingly crossed fourth after wasting a first-run lead by teammate\u00a0Breezy Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup racer of all time with a record 108 victories \u2014 71 of them in slalom, also a record \u2014 has now gone seven straight Olympic races without a medal.<\/p>\n After taking two golds and silver from her first two Olympics, Shiffrin also didn\u2019t win a medal in any of her six races at the Beijing Games four years ago.<\/p>\n Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher of Germany earned silver and\u00a0Paula Moltzan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jacqueline Wiles<\/a>\u00a0of the U.S. took bronze.<\/p>\n Shiffrin lost time to the leaders at every checkpoint and crossed 0.31 seconds behind \u2014 missing a medal by finishing 0.06 behind the other American team. In the finish area, Johnson \u2014 who was coming off a gold in the individual downhill \u2014 embraced Shiffrin, while the Austrians and other podium finishers began celebrating.<\/p>\n The team combined consists of one racer competing in a downhill run and another in a slalom run, with the times from the two added together to determine the results.<\/p>\n Shiffrin still has her individual events of giant slalom and slalom to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ANDREW DAMPF, Associated Press Sports Writer CORTINA D\u2019AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[82293,81305,81406,74,76,75,82347],"class_list":["post-171919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-2026-winter-olympics-milan-cortina","tag-breezy-johnson","tag-mikaela-shiffrin","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-team-combined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}