It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.
I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.
I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.
From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.
