Field Level Media
10 Feb 2026, 20:55 GMT+10
(Photo credit: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner)
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Austria's Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber won women's team combined Olympic gold on Tuesday as overwhelming U.S. favorites Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin missed out on the podium in a major shock.
Germany's Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher took the silver, 0.05 behind, and Jacqueline Wiles and Paula Moltzan finished third for the United States on a slalom piste set by the Austrian coach.
World and Olympic downhill champion Johnson and dominant slalom skier Shiffrin finished fourth -- missing a medal by 0.06 of a second -- after looking set to repeat their 2025 world championship win.
Johnson was fastest in the downhill leg but Shiffrin, winner of seven out of eight slaloms this season and the most successful World Cup skier of all time, was only 15th in the slalom run on Cortina d'Ampezzo's Olimpia delle Tofane piste after losing the advantage early on.
Shiffrin arrived at the 2022 Beijing Games as favorite to win a fistful of medals but left empty-handed. She has two more chances in giant slalom and slalom.
The fourth place also ended Johnson's hopes of a 'double double' -- holding both the world downhill and team combined titles and adding Olympic golds in both.
The silver was Aicher's second of the Games after she finished runner-up in the downhill. Remarkably, the German skied the slalom leg on Tuesday.
--Reuters, special to Field Level Media
Get a daily dose of Illinois Intelligencer news through our daily email, its complimentary and keeps you fully up to date with world and business news as well.
Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to Illinois Intelligencer.
More Information(Photo credit: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner) CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Austria's Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber won women's team combined...
(260210) -- LIVIGNO, Feb. 10, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Matej Svancer of Austria competes during the freestyle skiing men's freeski slopestyle...
US Vice President JD Vance arrived in Azerbaijan on February 10 as he continues a trip to the Caucasus aimed at shoring up support...
(260210) -- TESERO, Feb. 10, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway reacts after the cross-country skiing men's sprint...
(260210) -- LIVIGNO, Feb. 10, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Nick Page of the United States competes during the freestyle skiing men's moguls qualification...
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 10 (ANI): New Zealand dominated the United Arab Emirates in match 11 of the ICC Men's T20 World...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A former innovation unit of the U.S. government's foreign aid agency has resurfaced as an independent nonprofit,...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Thirty-one people were killed and 169 others wounded in a suicide bombing attack on a Shiite mosque on the outskirts...
ROME, Italy: A new law-and-order decree adopted this week by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's rightist government empowers the Italian...
LONDON, U.K.: After the release of the latest tranche of emails in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation by the U.S., the former Prince...
NEW YORK CITY, New York: The chairman of one of the country's most prestigious law firms has resigned after the release of emails revealing...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Claiming that history is on his side, President Donald Trump says he wants to build a towering arch near the Lincoln...
