Overview
- Swift wrote “HISTORIC 🥇🥇🥇” on Shiffrin’s celebratory Instagram post, drawing wide attention to the achievement.
- Shiffrin captioned her photo with lyrics from Swift’s “Ruin the Friendship” and shared a screenshot of the comment on her Instagram story.
- The win made Shiffrin the most decorated skier in Olympic history and marked her first Olympic gold since 2018.
- She defeated Switzerland’s Camille Rast by 1.50 seconds, the largest margin in an Olympic alpine event since 1998.
- The gold is Shiffrin’s third, tying Shaun White and Kaillie Humphries for the second-most Winter Olympic golds by a U.S. athlete, behind Bonnie Blair and Eric Heiden.