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As she tumbled across snow that day either gate or one of her poles stabbed her in abdomen and nearly nicked her colon which could have been life-threatening injury
On first run she lost ground coming off steep sidehill midway through course
Her giant slalom performance is vastly improved from last year but unclear if it will get back to where it once was
Nobody has been close to her in slalom
Temperatures dropped overnight after wet snow Saturday Sunday morning broke chilly on mountain
After injuries past two seasons she cut back schedule to focus on slalom giant slalom and team combined
Shiffrin has 108 World Cup wins but just two in 12 individual races during last four Olympics
Sara Hector and Thea Louise Stjernesund shared silver finishing in 2:14.12
Shiffrin won event eight years ago but struggled finishing in 11th place
Mikaela Shiffrin finished off the podium
Federica Brignone owned it
The bronze marks Pellegrino’s third Olympic medal but his first at home already a two-time silver medalist
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
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo broke the all-time Winter Olympics gold medal record on Sunday with his ninth career gold
Federico Pellegrino beat out Finland in a close battle for the podium coming down to the final lap
Italy finished third for its first cross-country skiing medal of its home games
France took second led by two-time silver medalist Mathis Desloges
Norway won the men’s cross-country skiing team relay off a dominant performance from Klæbo Emil Iversen Martin Løwstrøm Nyenget and Einar Hedegart
Ségolène Le Stradic contributed reporting from Paris