Tributes poured in on Thursday for one of Germany’s most popular sports personalities, two-time Olympic alpine skiing champion Rosi Mittermaier who died at the age of 72. Mittermaier’s family said she “died peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family after a severe illness.” Mittermaier gained pop star status by creating some of Germany’s lasting Olympic moments when she won downhill and slalom gold, plus giant slalom silver, at the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria – and became known as Gold-Rosi ever since. She retired from skiing at age 25 the same year in which she also won the …