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'Heartbreaking': Mikaela Shiffrin out of second race in a row

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Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin's second race at the Beijing Games ended even more quickly than her first.

Just like in her first event of these Olympics, the giant slalom, the American racer was done for the day within a matter of seconds.

Shiffrin appeared to yell out as she skidded out of control in the slalom, which she won at the 2014 Sochi Games. She skied over the the edge of the course and sat down, bowing her head. She stayed there for several minutes.

According to the U.S. Ski & Snowboarding Team, 26-year-old Shiffrin is "OK, but disappointed" after the "heartbreaking" miss. Earlier, Shiffrin herself had called her disqualification from the opening leg of the giant slalom “a huge disappointment."

"I think I just slipped," an emotional Shiffrin said after the disqualification. "I mean, I had every intention to go full gas, and there wasn't really any space in the course to, I don't know, to slip, not even a little bit. I didn't even give myself space for that."

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'Heartbreaking': Mikaela Shiffrin out of second race in a row

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