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She missed about nine weeks of the season and had to essentially rebuild her core musculature.
On Sunday, in the finish area after the race, she spoke of the quality of the competition that landed her outside the top 10 but just three-tenths of a second off the podium.
She had the fourth-slowest slalom run in the team combined, causing her team to drop from first place to fourth.
Her last podium finishi at the Games was in 2018.
As she tumbled across the snow that day, either a gate or one of her poles stabbed her in the abdomen and nearly nicked her colon, which could have been a life-threatening injury.
After a series of injuries the past two seasons, she cut back her schedule to focus only on what she is best at for these Olympics — the slalom, giant slalom and team combined, in which she skied one run of slalom.
On the first run, she lost ground as she came off a steep sidehill about midway through the course and then in a series of camel rolls ahead of the final jump.
Nobody has been close to her in slalom.
Her giant slalom performance is vastly improved from where it was last year and when this season started, but it’s unclear if it will ever get back to where it once was.
Sweden’s Sara Hector and Norway’s Thea Louise Stjernesund shared silver, both finishing in 2:14.12.
Shiffrin won this event eight years ago but has struggled with it in recent years, finishing in 11th place.
Mikaela Shiffrin finished off the podium.
Federica Brignone owned it.
Klæbo will enter as the favorite, as he has throughout the entire Games.
If he wins those two competitions, he would be the first man to sweep all six cross-country skiing events at the Olympics.
Next up is the team sprint on Wednesday, followed by the 50k on Saturday.
Pellegrino, 35, was Italy’s flag bearer to kick off the Games.
Already a two-time silver medalist, the bronze marks Pellegrino’s third Olympic medal, but his first at home.
Italy finished third for its first cross-country skiing medal of its home games.
Coming down to the final lap, team veteran Federico Pellegrino beat out Finland in a close battle for the podium.
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