Sunday, it was clear that Aksel Lund Image. This weekend he stood over launders in Kitzbühel due to the pain in the knee, and after the world cup in Åre in February is the end. Former teammate Tom Stiansen ranks now Lund Image as the very largest.
– I will say he is the biggest through the years. Even if Kjetil André Aamodt won several gold medals, I put the Shaft the highest. He has 36 verdenscupseire, and has won everything that can be won. The amazing type he is, and the ambassador he has been for alpinsporten is unparalleled, ” says Tom Stiansen to the Newspaper.
Stiansen reminisces back to how it was to have Lund Image as a teammate the last few years of his own career.
Therefore, he lays up: – A strange sense
We stayed a bit in the room when he came in as a young and was inexperienced. Right from the beginning he was an incredible source of inspiration for me, both skimessig and environmentally. I actually began to hear about the Axle already when he was eleven years old, my father studied together with his father. He is 13 years younger than me, so I knew about him from very early on, and it took not many years before he was inside of the national team.
Had you thought that he would be the greatest, already then?
– Yes, I realized quite early. But Aksel realized also how good Jansrud came to be. When the Shaft came in as a 17–year-old, and began to run into the top six placements in the world cup, he said of himself that he had to hurry up to win until Jansrud came up fully, Axle thought He was better.
It says something about what the two have meant to each other. They have used it in the same way that Aamodt and Kjus, and has been better of to be the two that cooperate and compete so closely in the world, ” says the 48-year-old.
He came in under the wings, and learned the lagmoralen as Furuseth and the others had set the standard for back in the early 90’s. It was continued with the Aamodt and Kjus, and to a certain extent myself. Aksel and Kjetil have been fantastic contributors to take it even further, also in the form of achievements.
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PREVIOUS GENERATION: The three alpinistene Tom Stiansen, Kjetil André Aamodt and Lasse Kjus. Here posing together in front of the Holmenkollen ski jump. Photo: Lars Eivind Bones / Dagbladet Show more Victory in Beaver Creek, the largest
Stiansen is not in doubt when he gets the question about what he puts the highest of Svindals achievements. It is the way he came back after skrekkskaden he picked up in 2007.
The biggest for me was the victory in Beaver Creek, the year after the injury in 2007. It is such a big mental thing to get back after something like that. It was a terrible fall, and there I think that was worse than people thought. It put him firmly out. The to come back shows how strong he is mentally.
the Right decision
Although the current cohost think it is a pity that Lund Image now, he is not in doubt that the 36-year-old has taken the right decision.
the Image had to be operated: – I hope this is the last
– I was pretty sure that he came to add up after this year anyway, and the way it seems to me he got hurt again in Bormio earlier in the year, ” he says, before he continues:
It’s wise of him to stand over now in Kitzbühel, and rather bet on to win the world CHAMPIONSHIP gold in the Vein. It has probably been a long term goal when the career is now on the wane, and for a period it would be.
– Aksel took his first gold in the Vein, which was also the first Norwegian gold that was taken after Aamodt or Kjus, says Stiansen.
He remembers even how it was adding up, and Stiansen think relief is the feeling Lund Image now are left with.
– It is of course sad when idrettskarrieren is over, I have even painfully learned, incidentally, completely without comparison. But he is 36 years old, and he has experienced everything. I think that it must be a delicious feeling, and now say that enough is enough. I think this is the right time for the Axle to give up.
But Stiansen fear certainly not for the future of the Norwegian alpine skiing, although also Kjetil Jansrud starting to get well up in the 30s.
– There are big shoes to fill for Lucas First, Aamodt Source and Co., but it said one then Aamodt and Kjus gave up also. It’s going to happen again, but these profiles are going to be remembered forever, he thinks.
Hoping for two gold medals
Stiansen hope not only on the downhill gold to Lund Image in the Vein, he also hope Jansrud gold medal in super-G.
If he is going to succeed in the Oar will be exciting to see, but we hope for a gold in the downhill to the Shaft, and a gold medal for Jansrud in super-G. It had been the perfect avslutninga.
– What is your best personal memory with Lund Image?
– I was actually recently looked at clips from when he won the kombinasjonsgullet in 2009. When I was there as a commentator, and it was really great to be a part of the experience.
There is still one thing Tom Stiansen would change: their own age.
I could wish I were 13 years younger, so that I could have run on the team with him even longer than I did, ” says Stiansen, who retired in 2005 after having been one world cup competition and one world cup gold.
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