CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY ¨C Mikaela Shiffrin won her first Olympic gold medal in eight years on Sunday, but above all else for the 30-year-old American, it felt like the first since her father¡¯s death six years ago ¡ª the culmination of a long journey to reach a place where the moment was just about ski racing once again.
¡°Everything in life ?that you do after you lose someone you love is like a new experience,¡± she said after claiming the ?slalom title ?on the Olimpia delle Tofane piste to put her experience at the Beijing Games in 2022 behind her.
¡°It¡¯s like ?being born again. I still have so many moments where I resist this. I don¡¯t want to be in life without my dad.¡±
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