With Lindesy Vonn unable to finish Thursday’s super-combined race at the Olympics, the U.S. had one last hope for its first medal in women’s Olympic combined or super-combined since 1948, Julia Mancuso. While Germany’s Maria Riesch finished with the gold, Julia claimed her second silver medal in the games and is emerging from the shadows of Lindsey and into a light of her own. Julia is enjoying the attention and using it to help promote her line of lingerie line called “Kiss My Tiara.” Julia can be found from time to time donning a tiara of her own.
Lindsey told reporters, “She’s just attacking. She has a lot of intensity, and I think her struggling in the past few years is maybe motivating her more. And she’s coming in here as an underdog. No one’s really expecting her to do anything, and I think that helps.”