Lara gut-Behrami just wanted to talk in the target room, it had welcomed. There, however, the desire was limited to questions. Now she sits this evening in Lake Louise on a Sofa bed in the team hotel and talk. As for the accusation that you’ve trained to 2018 because of the relationship with a footballer, Valon Behrami too little; about the Integration into the Swiss Team; about deficits in the Association; on the negotiations between Swiss-Ski, and your Team finances and personnel; about her father Pauli, Good, accompany you, after so many years hardly more; about José Luis Alejo Hervas, their new fitness coach, is now with her on the slopes.
the coaches at Swiss-Ski, it is Well-Behrami is more of a traveling with the Team, better integrated. Roland Platzer, the head of the driver inside, says: “she has fitted in well. She works more on the level of two or three years ago.” And, says the South Tyrolean yet, “she became a different adult, she communicates more, is more open.” Then you are talking about.
Has trained them to be little because of the relationship with Valon Behrami?
“I’ve lived the professionalism always. I’m the First one that requires much of me. I know what others say, but: Nobody was there in 2018. It’s not just in sports, that is a 28 woman enough to decide how you want to live your life. I’m not leaning back. I was during a preparation, in another year, ten days alone in New York, that was not a Problem. Last summer, I went five days home and then has disturbed many. This is not professional, it was called. This is ridiculous.”
your Integration into the Team
“Such issues are properly searched going. If I am two days in a bad mood, it means I was not integrated. If I am twice in the evening playing cards with the other, I integrated. We are here to go skiing, we all give our Best, physiotherapists, coaches, athletes. This is the Only thing we have as a common goal.”
its position in comparison to Holdener and Gisin
“I want to stop talking about it, because I know that vortex is created, and that makes me tired. To Mikaela Shiffrin I’m the one active athlete with the most Wins. This means that What was chosen for me, fits. There are no huge stories, if Michelle Gisin Dominique has her sister. Or if Wendy’s needs to train Holdener Slalom and two Coaches to go. Since no one speaks of special treatment. I understand your needs to 100 percent, each athlete is doing what she needs to be better. But that’s the way it is with me. Maybe I called for it, only louder, because I had known earlier what I need.”
Lara gut-Behrami talks about her goals in this world Cup Winter. (Video: Tamedia)
The deficits in the Swiss Team.
“in the spring, I said that we should improve in the physiological range. We are eight athletes in the speed team and now have at least half a solution – thanks to Liechtenstein. The physical therapist of Tina Weirather supported us. Otherwise, we will have a physiotherapist. An athlete, crashes, all the other have no support anymore. On the Level on which we move, what we are asking from the body, because we are in need of a physiotherapist and physical trainer, who will accompany us every day. The expectations of us athletes is that we need to have no excuse, because we have the best of the Best. That must be the goal of the Association. We don’t want to be spoiled, but all have, in order to be successful. We want to be better, must be the level of the athletes is high, but equally that of the whole Staffs.”
The exposures to the Swiss-Ski
“if I were the head of the Association, I would also prefer to not have any problems. If everyone asks for something to be better, you get fast headache. But the only way to success. I will never be satisfied, because I need to improve always. In top-level sport there is no point at which an Athlete says It is enough. It must always be professional and always more. An Association must not take advantage of the athletes, so that he can continue to live. But you must always remember that he exists thanks to the athletes. And if it is, we would have to give back the kid to do something, I say: “Yes, but first, more opportunities must be provided, only then will we be able to give the boy something.” It is not a Benefit thing, it is a top sport, a Job like any other, must be earned in each of his livelihood. Last week we were in the USA, because I saw a sports school with an incredible sports centre, something we have not even in Magglingen. And that was at a high school! I would have had something like that with 15, I had lived in the weight room. We want to compete, we need to be better. We can’t be satisfied, if we go home with a medal, although it was win 15. Why don’t we go with 15 home? Maybe it’s because there are weaknesses? But I don’t blame anyone. I look first at me, what can I do better, what was missing, what I can change. Only: Alone I can do little.”
The role of your father
“He was always there, especially as a father. What he is doing, if the daughter is too young to be driving? He drives the car. Say: He has been looking for me for a fitness coach, he taught me how to have discipline, he has motivated me, if I knew where to go. He did not know, perhaps it also had sleepless nights, but to me it has always been energy. This is his role as a father. With 28 I can make a lot of decisions yourself, but the support of the parents, I always need. I realize the longer the more, what he has done for me. If I had not had his support, I would not be 100 percent as to where I am today. I’m driving alone down the hill, but to get there, I needed a family and people who gave me self-confidence. Because it is a hard life, especially as a woman, because I had to show that I have no weaknesses. Otherwise, it would mean the same, I have to stop and have children. You can’t imagine how hard this is. It happened so fast, a small mistake. Only when skiing, at the line, something in addition, and you can feel, I can’t do it anymore. And then I get up daily and go on.”
your new conditioning coach
“in Order to have success, I need from year to year, more energy. The fatigue of a season cumulated with the next. I was wondering why I was hurt and I knew: I Want to ride at a high level, then I must be even more precise, even more. It was therefore important to have a fitness coach that is always with you, can control a day. Before that, I had to assess my position, because mistakes are easily made, and I land in the hospital.”
Created: 04.12.2019, 18:57 PM
