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Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber of Austria won gold in the new team combined event at the Milano-Cortina Olympics on Tuesday.
American Mikaela Shiffrin surprisingly crossed fourth after wasting a first-run lead by teammate Breezy Johnson.
Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup racer of all time with a record 108 victories, has now gone seven straight Olympic races without a medal.
After taking two golds and silver from her first two Olympics, Shiffrin also didn’t win a medal in any of her six races at the Beijing Games four years ago.
Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher of Germany earned silver and Paula Moltzan and Jacqueline Wiles of the U.S. took bronze.
Val Grenier, of St-Isidore, Ont., finished the downhill in 1:39.10 to put Canada into 19th place, 2.51 seconds behind Johnson’s leading time. Laurence St-Germain, of Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que., finished with the seventh-best time in the slalom to give the Canadians a 13th-place finish.
Valérie Grenier of St-Isidore, Ont., and Laurence St-Germain of Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que., finish 13th in the women’s team combined event at Milano Cortina 2026.
Canada’s other duo in the event, Toronto’s Ali Nullmeyer and Cassidy Gray, of Invermere, B.C., were disqualified during Nullmeyer’s slalom run.
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