Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympics end with no medal after mixed team near-miss

• US lose bronze-medal meeting with Norway on a tie-breaker
• Top-seeded Austria win gold while Germany claim silver

Mikaela Shiffrin will travel home empty-handed from the Beijing Winter Games after the United States missed the podium by 0.42 seconds in the mixed team parallel on Sunday afternoon.

The 26-year-old American star, the headline attraction of a US team including River Radamus, Paula Moltzan and Tommy Ford, came tantalizingly close to a redemptive bronze after defeating a Slovakia team without star Petra Vlhova in their opening tie before upsetting Italy to reach the medal round.