Behind an alpine skier : A podcast by Loïc Meillard

For this 6th episode, I had the chance to seat with the first girl of this podcast. The Norwegian Maria Tviberg was kind enough to talk about her way through 4 ACL injuries and gave some tips from her own experience.We all know that alpine skiing is a risky sport. And everyone is ready to accept that a few steps back during a career might happen. But not so many people are able to to break 4 ACL and still wants to fight for the top spots in Worldcup! Maria explains us her ups and downs of reh...

For this fifth episode, we went to England, more precisely with the slalom skier Dave Ryding. In this episode we are taking a look at the career of Dave. He skied on dryslopes for 11 years and finally got a taste of snow at only 13 years old!!! So his path to his podium in Kitzbühel is very different then many alpine skiers. He is also explaining what it is like open a coffee shop with his fiancee and why it is important for him to take his mind off skiing!Don't forget to follow us on the soc...

For this fourth episode, I got the chance to sit down with Victor Wiacek, originally from Poland but living in the USA since his childhood.This episode is a little bit different, since he is the first guest not racing on the world cup tour, but that doesn't mean we didn't talk about racing. As a fact, he is an athlete as well, but his life changed drastically two years ago when a ski laceration almost took his life while doing what he likes most, skiing.So he dedicated his time into making sk...

For this second episode, we got the Swiss slalom skier Tanguy Nef. We are talking about when we started racing against each other as kids. Then we take it all the way to the world cup circus and how we made it there as Tanguy took a different path while going to school in America after a big injury! We also talk about how we feel at the start of our first world cup race and how we both have a different way of getting ready for a race.We finished it up with some questions from our followers on...

For this second episode, we got the Swiss skier Gino Caviezel. We are talking about why we share the room since 5 years ago (2:15), the fact that we both have a sister or brother racing as well and how we stress for them or how we try to support each other (5:00), family business with their own eyewear company (13:50), we also talked about how Gino would love to come to a camp with his Harley Davidson (19:10)! We finished it up with some questions from our followers on instagram w...

For this first episode, we got the young swiss skier Marco Odermatt. We are talking about our love for coffee, our team and what we like about the first days on skis and our shared interest for watches. We finished it up with some questions from our followers on instagram with some very wide questions!Support the show

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