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What updates are there on the Winter Olympics and Michaela Schifrin's performance?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. At the Winter Olympics, the women's alpine skiing slalom event gets underway this hour, and one of America's greatest skiers is hoping to end a metal drought. Steve Futterman reports from Milan.
Before the Olympics began, Michaela Schifrin talked about having so much attention focused on her.
Pressure can exist, but pressure is a privilege, and I'm grateful for that.
So far, she has competed in three events. Her best finish was the team combined, where she just missed a medal, finishing fourth. Her final event is the slalom. It's her best event. At the 2014 Olympics, she won gold in the slalom. Schifrin has a career total of two golds and one silver. But since 2018, she has been shut out. There were no medals four years ago in Beijing.
Today, she hopes to finish in the top three. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Milan.
In Northern California, nine backcountry skiers remain missing following an avalanche in the Sierra Nevada. But authorities say six survivors have been rescued. The Nevada County Sheriff's Office says two have been sent to a hospital for treatment.
Calls are growing for Casey Wasserman to step down as head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee after his name appeared in the Justice Department's release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. West Hollywood City Council member Chelsea Byer spoke to reporters at a gathering of local officials and activists.
We should all care deeply that our own Olympic Games here in Los Angeles would risk the distraction, at the very least, of Wasserman's mired history, competing for airtime over what that stage is truly meant for.
The Justice Department's Epstein files included email exchanges from 2003 between Wasserman and Glenn Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend. Wasserman has not been accused of Any wrongdoing in the Olympic Committee, the LA-28 Olympic Committee, backed him as chairman last week.
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