Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson have won gold in the new team combined event at the Alpine skiing world championships.

Mikaela Shiffrin says she is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder following a crash in November and will not defend her gold medal in giant slalom at the Alpine skiing world championships.

It was easy to assume that her more successful teammate was her main inspiration when Paula Moltzan finished second behind Mikaela Shiffrin for the U.S. ski team’s first 1-2 finish in a women’s World Cup slalom in more than half a century.

Mikaela Shiffrin led Paula Moltzan for an American 1-2 finish in a night slalom to become the first ski racer with 50 World Cup wins in a single discipline.

United States' Breezy Johnson holds the trophy after finishing third in a alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Val d'Isere, France, Saturday, Dec.19, 2020. Shiffrin was responsible for all 34 American podium results on the women’s circuit in the past two seasons, but three months into the current campaign, two team members have scooped top-three results as well. The season has also brought a string of career-best results for Nina O’Brien, Keely Cashman and AJ Hurt. “I am really excited about and proud of our team,” Shiffrin said after placing third in the year-end night slalom in Semmering, Austria, on Tuesday. That same season Shiffrin won her second overall title while Alice McKennis Duran and Jacqueline Wiles also scored podium results.