In Sochi in 2014, Shiffrin became the youngest Olympic slalom champion at 18. Shiffrin herself wondered if she would ever perform to her best again in an Olympic slalom race. She answered by becoming only the second skier to win slalom gold twice at the Olympics, after Switzerland's Vreni Schneider in 1988 and 1994. "The reality of our sport is you lose a lot more than you win," Shiffrin said. Twelve years after her first Olympic win, Shiffrin delivered one of the great Olympic slalom performances.