Postings for august 2009 | Aksel Lund Svindal
Egil's last day with the team
This is it. Egil's last day as the Team Physio. Now he's off to Schalke 04. Last day of the camp we looked at some photos and talked about the good times we had together the last year. And at the airport in Zürich we made a toast with a little champagne and wished him good luck in the Bundesliga. Good guy, good times.
Tuning
My tech had to leave to get to the Atomic factory on time to ship the skis to Portillo Chile. The next camp starts there in a few days, and it would be kinda stupid to arrive there if there were no skis. So I do a little tuning myself. Not anything like the tech does. But since the snow is suft and this isnt a race it will do the trick.
Table tennis
Table tennis tournament at Hotel Alpin in Saas Fee. Everyone joined and we went trough groups, quarter finals, semi finals and this photo is from the final at the center court in the basement of Hotel Alpin between head coach Marius Arnesen and europa-cup coach anf former world-cup skier Jernej Koblar. Marius knocked me out in the quarter finals. Not a very close game, I'm not a very good...[...]
Tough life
Getting some sun on our terrace in Saas Fee. Big smiles =3D today. Not only because of the beautiful weather, but we also got great =3D snow on the glacier. Was at the lift 6.40 and waited for almost an whole = =3D hour before it opened so we could get on the first train to get up.
