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Freezing cold in Garmisch
I probably shouldn’t say this just coming from the cold north and Kvitfjell, but Garmisch is freezing cold. Finals are usually all about spring skiing, but not this year. I guess my body was in spring mode after Whistler (man I miss that place!), but now its all about winter again. And it’s early. 7.30 inspection, that means 06.00 wakeup call. Now its 11.00 and I’ve already made it back to the hotel and had lunch. Training was good, so looking forward to racing tomorrow.
Podium again!
Another good day in Kvitfjell with a third place. So fun to ski now when the feeling is good and the times are fast. Happy that Eric Guay won. Him and Cuche are the two guys at olympics that deserved a medal the most, without getting one. Check out the outfits me, Kjetil and Lars have been using this weekend. Its a combo of our olympic collection and the normal stuff. We've had the crazy jackets(as we've named the) all year, and now we brought our crazy pants from Whistler to complete the craziness! What do ya think? There is actually a facebook group saying these pants are cooler than the ones the norwegian curling team had in vancouver. Flying to Munchen to get to the finals in Garmisch tomorrow. Its gonna be fun! When you ski fast anything is possible.
2nd place in "home" downhill!
2nd place. Very happy with that! Didier Cuche is the best downhill skier in the world and he’s been amazing here all week. Maybe the skier on the world-cup that has the most reason to be disappointed after the Olympics. Couldn’t do anything with him, but very happy with 2nd. It was a close race with me and Didier almost to the finish. I did a bad tactical choice at the end of the course, so he kicked my ass there. Fun race today with beautiful winter conditions and blue sky. So the photo is not from today, but from the training run yesterday.. haha. Fun to come in to the finish and have the home crowd cheering for you. New day and more racing again tomorrow. Come and watch! [...]
Ready to race again
Start number 17 in tomorrows home snow race at Kvitfjell. Was 5th in training today, so with a little more speed it looks good for a top three. And check out my ski tech's car with the names on the door. Nice!
Sponsors
For any new ”followers” on my website, I didn’t get a bunch of new sponsors because I did well at Olympics. This is my team, the companies I work with, but IOC and Norway’s Olympic Committee made me remove the once that were in the same business as any of their sponsors. I could keep a logo like Acer, cause they work with IOC. But a company like Red Bull was forbidden, as Coca Cola sponsor Olympics. Anyways, now they’re all up here again, the whole team. You can click on SPONSORS to find out more about each company and why I wanted to work with them.