Czech Snowboarder Borrows Mikaela Shiffrin's Skis, Somehow Wins Super-G Gold

Weather postponements led American ski star Mikaela Shiffrin to skip today’s Super-G competition, leaving the event reigning champion Anna Veith’s to win. And Veith had an easy lead after Lindsey Vonn, among others, faltered. Then arrived Czech Ester Ledecka, a world champion snowboarder who borrowed Shiffrin’s skis for the event—one she’s only been competing in for two years, and in which she’d never finished better than 29th. ( She’s our pick to win gold in snowboarding parallel giant slalom.)
She won, beating Veith by one one-hundredth of a second. That’s her above, looking around in shock after realizing what she’d done.
Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather took bronze. Vonn finished tied for sixth. SPORTS!


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