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She stood out at every age category, making a name for herself on the international junior circuit from 1999 onwards, winning nine medals — including five golds — at the FIS World Junior Championships, spread across every Alpine discipline.

I worked so hard to achieve that aim.

Foreshadowing her future versatility, she triumphed in the downhill and super-G in Haus Im Ennstal AUT , and in the slalom in Levi FIN.

Still, before that error, Hoefl-Riesch enjoyed a seven-race, season-opening run in which she showed off her vast skills by never finishing worse than eighth and even turned in a second-place result in a slalom at Levi, Finland.

There were the two Olympic gold medals at Vancouver in 2010, in the slalom and the combined, and not only did that four years ago but also became the first woman to record top-10 finishes in all five Alpine disciplines at one Winter Games.

Says on her website she's a big fan of Elton John and Italian musical acts Zucchero and Gianna Nannini.

And the pair of world championship gold medals, for combined in 2013 and for slalom in 2009, along with three individual bronzes from 2011 and 2013.

There's no question that if Hoefl-Riesch is healthy heading to Sochi, she will be considered capable of turning in another Olympic performance like she did four years ago.

Runup Briefly traded the overall World Cup lead with Switzerland's Lara Gut in the early going of the 2013-14 season, helped in large part by consecutive downhill victories at Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies.

Hoefl-Riesch won both of those downhills by rather substantial margins.

She has proven to be capable of contending for medals in both speed and technical events, and has more than two dozen career World Cup race wins.