Winter Olympics 2010: Maria Reisch outshines Lindsey Vonn to win second gold

Bystaff and agencies Published: 9:04AM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

Second helpings: Maria Reisch took Olympic bullion in the slalom following her delight in the super-combined eventuality Photo: GETTY IMAGES

The thick sleet and haze were no compare for Riesch in her query for a second delight following the super combined. She could have been immune for indulging in wild celebrations after outshining Vonn, but the tall 25-year-old rught away went to cuddle her weeping immature sister Susanne, who was in the track for a award when she crashed out in the second run.

"It was a bizarre feeling," Riesch told reporters after following up her super total delight last week to turn the majority successful Alpine skier of the Vancouver Games.

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"This is the biggest day of my hold up and, at the same time, my sister"s universe is descending apart. I felt so contemptible for her, I had to console her."

Riesch"s mom Monika and her father Sigi, entertaining for their daughters on an additional miserable day of haze and sleet at Whistler, additionally had churned feelings.

"It was formidable for them, too," Riesch said. "Never mind, we"ll all go out for a drink tonight and it will be all right."

A means all-rounder, Riesch could additionally have forked out that she had finished improved than Vonn, who straddled a embankment in the initial run and will leave the Games with only dual medals, bullion in the downhill and bronze for Super-G.

"This is not the approach I see at it," Riesch pronounced when asked how if felt to have eclipsed the American speed queen, her closest crony and biggest opposition on the circuit.

"It is formidable for us all-rounders given we are approaching to win copiousness of medals but Lindsey has a bullion and a bronze and, given the resources with her injuries and everything, I"m certain she is happy to have finished that," she added.

Riesch warranted Germany"s women their third Alpine skiing bullion award of the Games, with Viktoria Rebensburg winning the hulk slalom, and their most appropriate altogether Olympic outcome given Katja Seizinger and Hilde Gerg took 3 titles at the 1998 Games.

There is some-more to see brazen to for Riesch in the nearby destiny with her home town, the Bavarian Alps review of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, hosting the universe championships subsequent year.

"We could have a lot of fun there," she said.