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Mikaela Shiffrin’s awful Beijing Olympics continued Thursday, as the U.S. skier suffered a third did-not-finish (DNF). Shiffrin arrived at the Winter Olympics looking to win a third consecutive gold, but, after prior course mishaps, the 26-year-old has sustained 60% of her career DNFs at the National Alpine Skiing Centre this month. After failing to finish in her favorite events—slalom and giant slalom, in which she won gold in 2014 and 2015—earlier in Beijing, she said she had no intentions of skiing safe so as just to finish. “It was not actually that much to ask for from myself, and I was s…