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Team USA racked up a bronze medal successful the alpine skiing women’s squad combined lawsuit astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics connected Tuesday – and it wasn’t the skiers fans were expecting.
The squad of Jacqueline Wiles and Paula Moltzan were the Americans connected the podium successful the event. Wiles tackled the downhill information of it and Moltzan completed the slalom. Wiles had a downhill clip of 1:37.04 and Moltzan enactment unneurotic a slalom clip of 44.87.
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The brace finished down Austria’s Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber, who won gold, and Germany’s Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher, who won silver.
The squad of Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson were the favorites to astatine slightest get a bronze medal fixed Shiffrin’s prowess connected the World Cup circuit and Johnson won a gold medal successful downhill earlier successful the Games.
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Johnson had a coagulated run, finishing with a clip of 1:36.59 – the champion of immoderate rival successful her group. Shiffrin wasn’t speedy capable to elevate her brace to the podium, finishing a half-second down Moltzan successful the event. The radical was conscionable implicit three-tenths of a 2nd down Wiles and Moltzan for the bronze.
It’s the archetypal Olympic medal for Wiles. She’s competed for Team USA successful the Olympics successful 2014, 2022 and 2026.
For Moltzan, it was her 2nd Olympics for Team USA. The bronze is her archetypal Olympic medal.
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