Athletes across sport are reaching out to Mikaela Shiffrin after she crashed out of the giant slalom and slalom races at the Beijing Games.

The back-to-back DNFs are extremely a-typical of the American skier, who recorded just two DNFs in the last four years before the Winter Games.

“It makes me second-guess the last 15 years, everything I thought I knew about my own skiing and slalom and racing mentality,” Shiffrin said following her slalom race.

American skiing icon Lindsey Vonn extended her support to Shiffrin on Twitter following the heartbreaking result, telling the 26-year-old not to second guess what she has accomplished.

“This does not take away from her storied career and what she can and will accomplish going forward. Keep your head high,” Vonn wrote.

Gymnast Simone Biles, who boldly stepped back from a handful of events in the Tokyo Olympics after a “twisties” spell, also reached out to Shiffrin via social media.

USWNT soccer star Carli Lloyd added her voice to the growing chorus rallying around Shiffrin, writing on Twitter, “Life..Sports..Pressure..The Olympics… are HARD! When you’re knocked down (which I’ve been many times), getting back up and doing the best YOU can is the only thing that matters. You hold your head high! You are a champion! We are all supporting you.”

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde also published a post supporting girlfriend Shiffrin, writing, “It’s part of the game and it happens. The pressure we put on individuals in the sports are enormous, so let’s give the same amount of support back… It’s all about the balance and we are just normal human beings!!”

Shiffrin addressed her boyfriend in a heartfelt post to her Twitter account Wednesday.

“My hope for every human is that they find another human who finds a way to love, understand, and heal them in the way (Kilde) has done and continues to for me.”

Mikaela Shiffrin has not decided whether or not she’ll be skiing in her last three alpine events in Beijing.

The three-time Olympic medalist skied out in her first two events, giant slalom and slalom, in a span of three days. After skiing out of slalom, Shiffrin was visibly upset.

In her post-race interview on NBC, she said that the results of the past two races have her “processing a lot.”

“It makes me second-guess the last 15 years, everything I thought I knew about my own skiing and slalom and racing mentality,” Shiffrin said.

While she will try to re-set, Shiffrin recognizes that this is new territory for her. Since winning the 2014 Olympic Games slalom, she’s won 47 World Cup races – more than any other alpine racer, male or female.

When speaking with reporters after her last race, revealed that she may not compete in the rest of her events in Beijing.

“I will try to re-set again, maybe try to re-set better this time but I also don’t know how to do better because I just don’t,” she said. “I have never been in this position before and I don’t know how to handle it.

“The hill and the ski track looks pretty incredible and I think it will be a pleasure to ski, but I also have some teammates who are really fast and we have the athletes who can fill the spaces, so if I am going to ski out on the fifth gate, what’s the point?”

Team USA notched its first gold medal of the Beijing Games, with Lindsey Jacobellis capturing gold in snowboardcross on Wednesday.

The American snowboarder topped the Olympic podium 16 years after falling just before the race’s finish line in Torino, where she had to settle for silver.

At 36 years old, Jacobellis becomes the oldest snowboarder to medal in the Olympics and the oldest American woman to clinch gold.

“This feels incredible because this level that all the women are riding at is a lot higher than it was 16 years ago,” Jacobellis said following the event. “I felt like a winner just that I made it into finals because that’s been a challenge every time.”

Chloe Trespeuch of France and Canada’s Meryeta Odine rounded out the podium, finishing .21 and .48 seconds behind Jacobellis, respectively.

Mikaela Shiffrin skied out of the slalom at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday, just two days after crashing out of the giant slalom. Once again, the top American alpine skier failed to make it past five gates, skiing off line seconds into her run.

Prior to the Olympics, Shiffrin had recorded just two DNFs in the last four years. She now has had two in a span of three days.

Afterward, Shiffrin sat on the side of the course for a gut-wrenching 20 minutes. Her mom joined her to try to console her as Shiffrin’s competitors carried on with their runs.

“It’s probably a culmination of the other day and today,” Shiffrin told reporters. “It feels like a really big let down.

“I was trying to look back and think about the last days and what I’ve been trying to do, what I’ve been doing with my skiing that would suggest that on the fifth gate I would push myself a little bit too hard to actually be able to stay in the course. [But] my skiing has been really solid. My entire career has taught me to trust in my skiing if it’s good skiing, and that’s all that I have to rely on on these race days.”

Shiffrin, the most decorated slalom skier in World Cup history with 47 victories, said she’s felt pressure to succeed but is still trying to understand what caused her to make routine mistakes in her first two events in Beijing.

“There are some nerves and the feeling that I want to do well. I always just go back to that fundamental idea that good skiing will be there for me,” she said. “It’s not the end of the world and it’s so stupid to care this much, but I feel I have to question a lot now.”

The 26-year-old was looking to become the first U.S. alpine skier to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics. While she has three more chances to medal in Beijing, giant slalom and slalom are her best events.

“We are not done yet, but GS and slalom, those were my biggest focuses,” she said. “It really feels like a lot of work for nothing. They will try to say: ‘This happens and it’s OK, and don’t be too hard on yourself,’ but it is a lot of work for a grand total of five gates in the GS and five gates in the slalom. That’s not lost on me.”

Many athletes have since tweeted in support of Shiffrin, including three-time Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn, who said she was “gutted” for the skier.

“But this does not take away from her storied career and what she can and will accomplish going forward,” Vonn wrote.

Petra Vlhová, Shiffrin’s top World Cup opponent this season, won gold in slalom with a combined time of 1:44.98. It’s the first Alpine skiing gold medal for Austria. Katharina Liensberger of Austria took silver, and Wendy Holdener of Switzerland won bronze.

American skier Nina O’Brien gave an update following her scary crash in the giant slalom event at the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Monday.

The 24-year-old revealed in an emotional Instagram post that she underwent surgery to repair a compound fracture of her left tibia and fibula. O’Brien is receiving treatment from a hospital in Beijing’s Yanqing District before returning home for further evaluation.

“Well, I gave everything I had, and maybe too much,” O’Brien wrote. “I keep replaying it in my head, wishing I’d skied those last few gates differently. But here we are.”

After placing sixth in her first run Monday, O’Brien hit a gate on the final turn of her second run and crashed just before the finish line. The American skier was stretchered off and rushed to the hospital.

She said that, while she is heartbroken, she is also “feeling so much love” from the flood of messages she’s received.

“The good news is that today is a new day — and I get to cheer on my teammates. Good luck to everyone competing and enjoy it,” O’Brien concluded.

United States teammate Mikaela Shiffrin will next compete in the slalom on Tuesday after skiing out of the giant slalom and being disqualified from the remainder of the event.

Ester Ledecká successfully defended her women’s snowboarding giant slalom title in Beijing on Tuesday, becoming just the second Czech woman to win three Winter Olympic gold medals.

She joins speed skater Martina Sáblíková as the most decorated Olympian in Czech history.

The 26-year-old went up against Austrian Daniela Ulbing in the final. Ulbing won silver after falling during the final run, while Slovenia’s Gloria Kotnik took bronze.

“It was fun, I was trying to be consistent and just staying in my line with what I was doing the whole day,” Ledecká said, revealing that due to Ulbing’s tumble she was expecting another run. “I was so concentrated until the end that I didn’t even know if we had to go up one more time or not.

“I was not celebrating it at all, it’s still not sunken in. I’m super happy, but in my head, I’m just still a little bit in the race.”

For her part, Ulbing is happy with her result despite not finishing the final run.

“I had to risk it all to try to beat Ester,” Ulbing said. “That’s what I did and mistakes happen, but I’m pretty happy I ended up second. I’m really happy, it’s amazing. I don’t know what to say more, I’m just happy.”

Ledecká will now turn her attention to Friday’s Super-G race, where she will look to defend her gold medal. She made history four years ago when she became the first woman in Winter Olympic history to win gold medals in two different sports at the same Games.

Canada beat the U.S. 4-2 on Tuesday to earn the top overall seed in the Beijing Olympics women’s hockey tournament.

Forward Brianne Jenner notched two goals, with Jamie Lee Rattray and Marie-Philip Poulin each adding one. Alex Carpenter and Dani Cameranesi each scored for Team USA as they outshot Canada 53-27.

Canadian goaltender Anne Renée-Desbiens made 51 saves in the win, setting a Canadian record for saves in an Olympic game.

“We had a lot of offensive zone time and generated a lot of shots. But shots don’t win games; goals do. We ended up on the wrong side of the goal scoring,” U.S. coach Joel Johnson said.

Jenner got the scoring started on the power play 14:10 into the first period when the U.S. held a 14-3 shot advantage.

The second period saw the most action, with five goals being scored in the span of 5:08 to give the Canadians a 4-2 lead heading into the third period.

Cameranesi erased the 1-0 deficit nearly halfway through the second period. Roughly two minutes later, Carpenter converted on the power play to give the U.S. a 2-1 lead. But the advantage was short-lived, as Jenner notched her second of the night to tie the game. After that it was all Canada as Rattray notched one a little over two minutes later. Poulin then converted on a penalty shot to make it 4-2.

“In the dressing room, we talked about not letting momentum swing, so that’s something that we’ve been focusing on. Whenever we let a goal in, it’s just a fresh start when the puck drops and forget what happens,” Desbiens said. “I think it just shows how resilient we are, how we can just change the focus and don’t let momentum swing for too long.”

Team USA was unable to cut the lead despite outshooting Canada 21-6 in the third period. They also struggled on the power play, converting just once in six chances.

“We’ll learn from this game. Unfortunate second period. You’d never want to give up that many goals. I’ll learn from this moving forward into the next games,” Team USA’s Maddie Rooney said.

Each team came into the game undefeated, with the U.S. coming off of a win over Switzerland and the Canadians off of a win over the ROC. Canada now takes the No. 1 overall seed into the medal round while the U.S. sits second.

The U.S. will take on the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals on Friday.

Team USA’s Jessie Diggins took home bronze in cross-country skiing on Tuesday, clinching America’s first-ever sprint medal.

The 30-year-old clocked a time of 3:12:84 to beat out United States teammate Rosie Brennan and secure a place on the podium. Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvis of Sweden captured gold and silver in the medal event.

With Tuesday’s third-place finish, Diggins becomes the first American woman to win an Olympic cross-country skiing medal in an individual event.

Diggins is no stranger to making history, securing the first-ever Team USA gold medal in cross country skiing alongside teammate Kikkan Randall in PyeongChang.

The American’s bronze medal comes days after finishing sixth in the 15km event.

Eileen Gu made history on Tuesday, capturing the first gold medal in the Olympics’ inaugural freestyle skiing big air event.

The competition came down to Gu’s final run, with the 18-year-old sitting behind Tess Ledeux of France on the leaderboard as she entered the starting gate. With all eyes on the Team China star, Gu threw down a daring third jump that produced her highest score of the night. The American-born skier landed a double cork 1620 to move in front of Ledeux and clinch the gold medal with a total score of 188.25.

“That was a trick I have never done before, had never attempted before,” Gu said after the win. “I’ve thought about it a lot, but to put it down on my third run in the first Olympic freeski final in history means the world to me.”

Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland rounded out the podium, finishing behind Gu and Ledeux for the bronze medal.

“That was the best moment of my life. The happiest moment, day, whatever of my life,” Gu added. “I just cannot believe what just happened.”

Gu, who has competed for China since 2019 despite being born and raised in California, is also a favorite to medal in the slopestyle and halfpipe events. The slopestyle competition kicks off on Saturday and runs through Sunday.

Nina O’Brien is “alert and responsive” after crashing out of the giant slalom on Monday at the Beijing Winter Olympics, according to U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Crashing out in the final turn, O’Brien was taken off the course on a stretcher after appearing to injure her left leg.

The race was delayed for about 15 minutes.

“She was worried about delaying the race,” the organization said. “And also she wanted to know how fast she was skiing.”

It’s the 24-year-old’s first Olympics. Currently ranked 24th in the world, she was the lone American left in the event after Mikaela Shiffrin crashed out in her first run.

On Monday, Shiffrin took to social media, saying that she is “so heartbroken” for O’Brien.

“She showed so much heart and fire in her skiing today, and it all got shredded to pieces on the final turn,” she wrote. “This sport… this sport is so damn hard. It’s brutal, and it hurts – far more than it ever feels good.”

Shiffrin also took time to congratulate the Olympic champion, Sara Hector.

“We’ve all seen her fight for her comeback for years,” she wrote. “To watch her pull everything together this season and manage to keep that momentum going to take gold today was something special. She deserves it so much.”

The slalom event is currently scheduled for Wednesday.