Skier Mikaela Shiffrin scoffed at her haters after crashing out of race and said it's 'not the end of the world' to fail

• Mikaela Shiffrin scoffed at her haters after crashing out of the Alpine combined event.
• The skier wrote on Twitter and Instagram that it's "not the end of the world" to fail.

Mikaela Shiffrin had a message for her haters after crashing in the slalom section of the Alpine combined event on Thursday: "It's not the end of the world to fail."

The American skiing icon took to Instagram and Twitter to address the hate she said she's been receiving after a handful of disappointing races at the Beijing Olympics.

Four screenshots posted to her accounts showed quoted insults from unidentifiable individuals, including: "Can't handle the pressure," "Got what you deserved," and "You're time is over, retire."

In a fifth post, the 26-year-old addressed the blow back with an inspirational message.

"Get up, again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again," she wrote. "Get up because you can, because you like what you do when it's not infested with the people who have so much apparent hate for you. Just get up.

"It's not always easy, but it's also not the end of the world to fail. Fail twice. Fail 5 times. At the Olympics."

She added: "Why do I keep coming back? Gosh knows it hurts more than it feels good lately. I come back because those first 9 turns today were spectacular, really heaven. That's where I'm meant to be and I'm stubborn as shit."

Shiffrin came into this year's Winter Games with high expectations on her shoulders as a six-time world champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist.

However, things got off to a bad start in Beijing for the 26-year-old when she fell in her first run of the women's giant slalom event and again in her second run.

In the women's slalom just days later, she then fell again for her third "DNF" in two events.

She rebounded to finish ninth in the super-G and 18th in the downhill events, however then crashed out again in the Alpine combined on Thursday, ending her last chance for an individual gold in Beijing.

"The most disappointing thing, beyond walking away from the Games with no individual medals, is that I had multiple opportunities to ski slalom on this track, and I failed in all of them," Shiffrin said after her latest dissapointment on the slopes, according to CNN.

"That's disappointing for me, it's disappointing for my whole team, for the coaches, for everybody who's been working so hard, and it's disappointing for anybody back home who woke up and thought, especially today, 'Hey, she did a pretty good downhill run, set up pretty well for the slalom.'

"Right now, I just feel like a joke."