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Riesch wins gold, Mancuso silver

Updated: February 18, 2010, 7:39 PM ET
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WHISTLER, British Columbia -- For all the worry about her famously injured shin, it was a common skiing mistake that ended Lindsey Vonn's bid for a second Olympic gold medal in two days.

Though Vonn's bruised right leg was "killing me," she said she simply failed to get her ski around a right-hand gate and fell in the slalom run of the super-combined.

"The shin wasn't the reason why I didn't finish the race," Vonn said. "It was just because I hooked a tip, and that happens in ...

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