OAR (Dagbladet): Czech Ester Ledecká (23) is a unique athlete. During the OLYMPICS in Pyeongchang she won the OLYMPIC gold medal in two different branches.

It is the very few who have managed through OLYMPIC history. In the year she got no opportunity to do the same during the world cup:

I have been to make snowboarding more popular, so I think that many fans would have liked to see me compete in both championships. I was furious, but I must respect the choice, ” explains Ledecká to Dagbladet in the Oar.

TWO-time OLYMPIC GOLD: Ester Ledecka.JAVIER SORIANO / AFP Show more The great shock

the Date is 17. February 2018. There are some dramatic scenes that unfold during the women’s super-G at the OLYMPICS.

a Long time it looked as if the austrian Anna Veith were to take the OLYMPIC gold in front of Tina Weirather and Lara Gut-Behrami. After that start number 20 was in goal started the austrian team to celebrate. It was awarded “high fives”, and the adage that you should never sell the skin before the bear is shot was forgotten in a cocktail of joy and hope.

Surprised everyone

So dolls Czech Ledecká up. From a late start number, hurtling her into the new ledertid. In goal, she is one poor, one hundredth ahead of Veith.

A hundredth. A abstract small numbers, had enormous consequences.

Ledecká can’t believe it myself. 23-year-old, who barely had a top-ten position in the world cup, is sure that something is wrong with the time, and that she is going to race down the rankings when the organizer finds the error.

It never happened. The audience was in ecstasy, and the main character himself could not comprehend what had just happened.

She stopped. And there she was standing. Totally silent. In many, many seconds, before she looked confused around as if she thought really Happened here?

– It is difficult to explain what happened. I thought that there was a mistake with the time. I was sure that they were going to add a couple of seconds, but it happened nothing and the people began to cheer. Then I thought: Ok, now it starts to get strange, told Ledecká to the Newspaper during the OLYMPICS.

Sjokkseier. The Ester (22) was stunned in the target Forced to tough options

Ledecká, as both are in the world class alpine skiing and snowboardcross, have had a difficult choice before this year’s world cup.

world cup alpine skiing and snowboarding will be staged namely, at the same time. Ledecká was in the unique situation that she could have both the world CHAMPIONSHIP gold and OLYMPIC gold in the same event in two different branches.

It was she cheated of the of the international skiforbundet (FIS).

She was trying to get FIS to move one of the championships, but it did not do. Finally, she made the choice to compete in the alpine skiing world CHAMPIONSHIPS.

– Why did you choose the alpine ski world CHAMPIONSHIPS in front of snowboardcross?

I felt that I came to get some good competitions here. There is a nice hill. I can’t quite explain why I chose this, it was just something inside me that told me to come here, she says to Dagbladet.

Was it a tough choice?

I wish I could have done both, but it was not possible now. I think this was a good choice.

Started with the fall

During the OLYMPIC games in Pyeongchang was Ledecká also known because she refused to take off his alpinbrillene for the OLYMPIC gold. She sat inside at a press conference with the.

The same style drove her yesterday as she strolled through the pressesonen. The cold in the Oar meant that she had turned exactly zero percent of the skin.

CASE: Ester Ledecká was not satisfied after the first utforgjennomkjøringen. On Tuesday she will try to defend the OLYMPIC gold in the super G. Photo: NTB Scanpix Show more

Ledecká is known as the one who gives everything no matter, and leave it to. Ragnhild He describes it in the following way:

– She is an extremely innsatskjører. In my head she’s out of control, but in her head, it is surely still in control.

It led to the Ledecká was the only one who fell in yesterday’s utfortrening:

– It’s okay. It was stupid of me. It was only my fault. We were not here last year, so I have not gotten the test this part before. I did not know how the jump came to be, and was not as prepared on the jump as I should have been, ” she explains.

Multitalent

the Story of Ledecká is not only the story of one of the OLs major shock. It is also the story of a very special talent. 23-year-old also runs snowboarding on a thus the level.

It goes at the expense of something. During the OLYMPICS in 2018 it was revealed that tsjekkeren for example, inherits one-year-old skis of the other in verdenscupsirkuset.

This is because she is not getting the time to test enough the ski itself, and it is best to rely on someone else’s work.

– She is an extremely athletic person. I’m sure she could have been good in everything she would, ” says He to the Newspaper.

Even taking Ledecká the big acts from last year, with a peace just the one with the snowboard-blood in the years may have:

For me, there is not any difference. It is changed on the outside, but I can only run down a hill. I’m with the team all the time, and we are five pieces that are almost hidden in a submarine to the outside world. It is not a big difference, I do what I do all the time.

Historic Ester (22) hailed: – She is an example for all