Something is wrong with U.S. skiing legend Mikaela Shiffrin

Mikaela Shiffrin had a chance to get a pairs team-up medal with Breezy Johnson on Tuesday.

The United States legend just needed to ski the 13th-best slalom time in the team event to ensure a spot on the podium after Johnson had dominated her half of the proceedings.

But out of 18 competitors, Shiffrin was 15th-fastest. They didn't medal.

All of a sudden, everyone wants to know what's wrong with Shiffrin.

“I didn’t find a comfort level that allows me to produce full speed,” Shiffrin told reporters Tuesday, via Barry Svrluga of the Washington Post. “So I’m going to have to learn what to do, what to adjust, in the short time we have before the other tech races. There’s always something to learn.”

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Shiffrin has 71 career slalom wins on the World Cup circuit, the most of any man or woman ever.

But at the Olympics the last two cycles, she has struggled.

"Shiffrin’s discombobulating debut at these Olympics comes four years after her struggles in Beijing, where she hooked gates early in slalom, giant slalom and the slalom portion of the Alpine combined — an individual event that was replaced by the team competition here," Svrluga writes. "She could have medaled in any or all. She failed to finish even one run. There’s just no overstating how bizarre Shiffrin’s pattern in the past two Games has become. The last time she finished 15th or worse in a World Cup slalom was in March 2012. (During that time, she recorded five DNFs — did not finish.) That was four days after her 17th birthday."

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Shiffrin won Olympic gold in the slalom in 2014 and in the giant slalom in 2018.

This season, she had won all the slalom World Cup races except for one, where she finished second.

“I’m careful not to make excuses,” Shiffrin said, via Svrluga. “But it comes from different variables. It is a sport of fine margins and a lot of variables. And this kind of thing happens more often than not in training, where it’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t quite feel comfortable enough.’"

Shiffrin's miss meant that the U.S. duo of Paula Moltzan and Jackie Wiles won the bronze medal, so for the United States as a whole, all was well that ended well.

But for Shiffrin, inexplicably, there are struggles to overcome.

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