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Barbara Ann Cochran was watching her son race from back home in Vermont.

As Ryan Cochran-Siegle set off at around noon Tuesday for a super-G run that would earn a silver at the Beijing Games, it was around 11 p.m. Monday night back home in Starksboro, Vermont. So his mother, Barbara Ann Cochran settled into bed to keep tabs on her laptop on how her son would fare. Mom, you see, came from the "Skiing Cochrans" family of Olympians, and was the slalom champion at the 1972 Sapporo Games.

Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin missed a gate early in the first run of the slalom at the Beijing Games and is out of the event.

A visibly shaken Mikaela Shiffrin struggled to explain her second shocking exit from an Olympic alpine skiing race this week, admitting to that her performance in Beijing has been a 'letdown.'

BEIJING — The first question posed to Mikaela Shiffrin as she met with reporters after her second consecutive quick exit from an Alpine skiing race at the Beijing Games was short, simple and to the point: What happened?The complicated, thought-out,...