(Yanqing) American skier Mikaela Shiffrin, in the race for five individual medals at the Beijing Olympics, warned that it seemed to her “impossible to achieve two perfect weeks at the Olympics”.
Posted at 9:30 p.m.
Already a triple medalist and double Olympic champion (slalom in 2014 and giant slalom in 2018), Mikaela Shiffrin hopes to line up in five individual disciplines on the Yanqing domain (downhill, super-G, giant, slalom, combined) with the means to succeed a historic harvest at 26 years old.
“There are many factors that I don’t control, even more than in a classic World Cup. There are many moving parts to assemble. So it is impossible to have two perfect weeks at the Olympics, ”said the champion in an audio document sent to the media on Saturday.
“There will be disappointment if I leave here without any medals,” she admitted.
Mikaela Shiffrin begins her Olympic quest on Monday with the giant, of which she is defending champion.
“We will see day after day,” she added of her program. “The main question is on the downhill,” she says, where practices “will serve as trials, because there are more than four (American) girls who can be fast. »
And the team parallel, the last event of the Games? ” It’s a possibility. But I do not feel obliged to align myself with it, ”she warned.
The skier with 73 World Cup victories also commented on the significant presence of the wind, one of the concerns of athletes in the arid Yanqing area: “You have to expect to suffer a gust even if we have done everything well until -the “.