Whether on one edge or two, Czech snowboarder and Alpine skier Ester Ledecka pushed the limits at the Pyeongchang Olympics, leaving with two gold medals to show for her efforts.

On Saturday, Ledecka added snowboard parallel giant slalom gold to her Alpine super-G victory from earlier in the games. Asked what went into her multi-discipline success, she gave a very practical response.

"Skiing helps me a lot because I am not afraid of the speed. I gain much more speed in the ski," she said.

"On the other hand, snowboarding helps me a lot in skiing because I just have one edge, just one chance. So there is a lot of security and stability which I have from snowboarding."

This simple, technical approach may have been a key to the 22-year-old's near-unprecedented Olympic quest, which her American snowboard coach Justin Reiter said made her a "once-in-a-lifetime" athlete.

"If she chose to just absorb all the energy from the super-G medal and kind of check off the Olympic medal, we'd be having a different conversation today," he said.

"But because of who Ester is, and how she functions, that is not enough. The super-G, she loves it and it's amazing, but she came here with a goal and she's very, very focused on our goal."

"We did everything we could to support that. She's an incredible person, she's once-in-a-lifetime. She's got a great heart, great head, too. She's a really, really incredible human being."

Reiter said a major part of the challenge for Ledecka was managing the transition between sports, in addition to ensuring she maintained her health. It was clearly something she perfected in Pyeongchang.

"It was actually quite tough to change myself to a snowboarder (after the alpine event). I had one week for it, in the end, and until yesterday, I didn't really feel good with my riding," Ledecka said in her snowboard gold medal press conference.

"But today I found the snowboarder in me, luckily."

"In the end, it was the smallest pressure on me...I was just riding and doing my best, and doing my top."

In her sports, where hundredths of seconds matter, distraction is the enemy, but Ledecka said racing came naturally after competing since childhood.

"This is the best thing about my job, the racing. I just feel good in my bubble. Just focusing on myself and my riding, and I think it helps me a lot in the race."

"For sure I can push myself further. There are still many mistakes in skiing and snowboarding as well, and I still want to improve myself."

And what is next for the only woman to have won gold in two different sports at the same Winter Games? Will it be red carpets and wild parties? Apparently not.

"I'll get home and lie in bed and maybe sleep for a while," she said.