skiing
getting up close and personal with the best downhill, freestyle and cross country skiers in the world from record holders to Olympic champions.
Olympic Reflections: Zoe Atkin
Zoe Atkin interview: “This is crazy – in these two days people all over the world are going to watch me.”
GB Olympian and World Championship bronze medallist Zoe Atkin talks about her Beijing 2022 experience.
Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the snow
Paul McGee talks to double Olympic champion Pierre Vaultier, World Cup bronze medallist Zoe Atkin, and Team GB’s first ever Nordic Combined athlete Mani Cooper about snowboard and ski fitness, and how you can prepare for a winter season that’s been a long time coming.
Zoe Atkin: “After two years off your legs will likely be very sore!”
Mani Cooper
Mani Cooper interview: “You learn to listen to yourself and train what you need to train.”
Team GB’s first female Nordic combined Olympic athlete, Mani Cooper, talks about the unique identity of her sport – and training during lockdown.
Jessie Diggins: Brave Enough
A review of the new autobiography by Jessie Diggins, Brave Enough: “I thought I was going to die. My vision got blurry. The world suddenly had a pink tint to it.”
Cross country skiing Olympic Champion Jessie Diggins joins us as we explore her new book.
Beyond Skiing Everest: the Mike Marolt Story
Mike Marolt interview: “They thought we were going to go out there and get ourselves killed.”
Ski Hall of Famer, film director and author Mike Marolt talks to us about the very unique perils associated with skiing at extreme altitiudes – and the steps he has taken to minimise them.
Jessie Diggins
Jessie Diggins interview: “The worst things we as humans can do is nothing at all.”
USA’s first ever Cross Country Skiing Olympic champion Jessie Diggins talks to us about climate change, her first-hand experience of a warming planet, and what we can do about it.
Ester Ledecká
Ester Ledecká interview: “I tried and gave it everything I have. Even though everybody kept telling me it was not possible.”
Czech winter sports legend Ester Ledecká is the only person in history to have won Olympic gold medals on two different pieces of equipment. We look at the Ester Ledecká Snowboard and Ski story and try to crack the code of her unprecedented success.
Tina Maze
Tina Maze interview: “Nobody with easy lifestyles can know what success tastes like.”
Possibly the most successful alpine skier of all time, Tina Maze talks about her very unique trail to victory and tells us what it takes to be a record breaker.
Julia Mancuso
Julia Mancuso interview: “It definitely motivated me though my injuries because I would get a lot of messages from fans that I inspired them.”
Former Olympic Giant Slalom champion Julia Mancuso on the impact of social media for the modern athlete.
Hanna Öberg
Hanna Öberg interview: “During the summer we have no real holidays. There is a lot of training, consisting mainly of rollerskiing, biking, running, strength training and of course shooting.”
Hanna Öberg, gold and silver medallist at this year’s Winter Olympics, on the arduous summer training regime of an Olympic biathlon champion, and how it felt to win not just one but two Olympic medals at the first time of asking.
Bastien Montès
Bastien Montès interview: “Skiers regularly refuse the start of races at high speeds, paralyzed by the stake, by the risks.”
The fastest man in the world this year talks about the psychological edge needed to hurl yourself down a mountain at twice the national speed limit, and explains what’s so special about the Chabrieres speed ski track in Vars.
Valentina Greggio
Valentina Greggio interview: “I’m never really happy. I always want to get better and better.”
Understanding the relationship between perfection and pure speed with the fastest lady on earth – ever,
Lloyd Wallace
Lloyd Wallace interview: “I think that in any sport where you are made to wear a helmet there are certain risks involved that you have to be willing to take.”
Following the head injury that saw him put into a coma, aerial skier Lloyd Wallace talks about qualifying against the odds for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.