Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson miss team combined podium but Americans still leave with Olympic medals
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Two days after a heartbreaking fourth in the Olympic downhill, Jacqueline Wiles was staring at a similar storyline from the bottom of the Olympia delle Tofane course on Tuesday morning in Cortina. The 33-year-old’s team combined comrade, Paula Moltzan, had just pushed the No. 2 American squad into third place with one skier left in the slalom starting gate: Mikaela Shiffrin. Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson — who won the inaugural team combined at the world championships last March in Saalbach — appeared poised to claim their second-straight global medal. After capturing the individual downhill gold on Sunday, Johnson handed the nine-time slalom crystal globe champion a...