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15 Feb, 2014

Wins Olympic silver medal

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Höfl-Riesch wins the Olympic silver medal in the Women’s Alpine Skiing: Super-G event. The German Olympian puts in a time of 1:26.07 minutes, but falls 0.55 seconds short of gold medalist Anna Fenninger of Austria.

Then the race was done for me. I just tried to stay in the race but I never thought it would be good enough for a medal

Alpine Skiing - Ladies' Super G - Anna Fenninger Wins Gold | Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

10 Feb, 2014

Wins Olympic gold medal

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Höfl-Riesch wins the Olympic gold medal in the Women’s Alpine Skiing: Combined event. The skier is the pre-race favorite and defending Olympic champion. Though she ends her first run in 5th position, here combined time of 2:34.62 minutes is enough to secure first place.

It’s unbelievable. Of course, I was the big favorite for today, but I had some problems on the downhill course.

Ladies' Alpine Skiing - Super Combined - Höfl-Riesch Wins Gold | Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics