Breezy Johnson clinches second gold medal with longtime friend at the Alpine World Championships

The US skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson became world champions of the combined teams, this Tuesday in Saalbach (Austria), ahead of the Swiss Wendy Holdener and Lara Gut-Behrami, and the Austrians Stephanie Venier and Katharina Truppe. World champion of descent last Saturday, Johnson, who just a few weeks ago returned to the competition after serving a 14-month penalty for skipping three anti-doping controls, only made the fourth best t…

"We're friends, we've known each other for years", Mikaela Shiffrin told us before she started with downhill world champion Breezy Johnson at the team-combi in Saalbach – and the duo also crawled gold. There were old photos quickly found ... "After she had become downhill world champion, Breezy said that if I wanted to drive the team-combi, it would be an honor for her if we formed a duo, Shiffrin wrote in the social media. That would close a ci…

USA Celebrates Gold as Shiffrin and Johnson Win First Team Combined Gold at World Champs

Featured Image: Team Combined Podium. Credit: GEPA Following an impressive downhill performance, Lauren Macuga of the Stifel US Ski Team secured the lead with a time advantage of -0.23. German athlete Emma Aicher finished in 2nd place, and Mirjam Puchner of Austria finished in 3rd, +0.28

Breezy Johnson clinches second gold medal with longtime friend at the Alpine World Championships

Former WWU student and her race partner Mikaela Shiffrin took first in the new team combined race Tuesday