Mikaela Shiffrin Has A Message For The People Who Have So Much Apparent Hate

Beijing has turned Mikaela Shiffrin s Olympic dreams into the stuff of Olympic nightmares.

The decorated alpine skier crashed Thursday in the alpine combined event her third crash in five events at the Games ensuring she wont take home an individual medal this year.

Theres going to be a whole chaotic mess of crap that people are saying about how I just fantastically failed these last couple of weeks in the moments that actually counted, she reflected afterward .

Its really strange, but Im not even afraid of that right now, and maybe its because I dont have any emotional energy to give any more.

Shiffrin addressed that chaotic mess of crap head-on later Thursday.

In a series of tweets, the skier first shared a small sample of the vitriolic messages shes apparently received, including: Finally got what you deserved; Dumb bitch cant [sic] even do the one thing she is supposed to do right; and didnt get all the medals and now shes going insane.

Then she shared her defiant response :

Well kids feed em what you wanna feed em. Self pity, sadness let the turkeys get you down. There will always be turkeys. Or get up, again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Get up because you can, because you like what you do when its not infested with the people who have so much apparent hate for you. Just get up. Its not always easy, but its also not the end of the world to fail. Fail twice. Fail 5 times. At the Olympics. (Enter me)
Why do I keep coming back? Gosh knows it huts more than it feels good lately. I come back because those first 9 turns today were spectacular, really heaven. Thats where Im meant to be and Im stubborn as s**t. So lets go for some team event training tomorrow, and then the final alpine race of the Olympics on Saturday.

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Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) February 17, 2022

Shiffrin closed with a message of support for her teammates and one last shot at the haters:

Look out for @PaulaMoltzan @TommyFord River, @AJHurti, @LukedWinters and myself (or if you are playing the side of hater today, ignore me but definitely look out for them!)

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Shiffrin and her teammates will compete in the mixed team event on Feb. 19 (airing Friday night in the U.S.).