Stubai Alps (Austria) (AFP)
"Incredible, one of the most beautiful + runs + of my life!"
For her return to the slopes nine months after a serious injury, Tess Ledeux won the slopestyle on Saturday at the opening of the World Cup in Stubai (Austria).
The former slopestyle world champion and current X-Games Big Air title holder, who turns 19 on Monday, admits she did not expect such a performance, in a phone interview with AFP .
QUESTION: Was this entry victory a surprise for you?
ANSWER: "Yes. I was on a return from injury, it was my first competition of the season, in these cases there are always plenty of doubts, and to achieve a performance like my first + run +, it is was a surprise to me. It's been three days since I told my coach that I won't be able to do a + run + like that, and then I changed little things, and it's amazing, I do one of the most beautiful + runs + of my life. In the second + run +, the wind picked up, we had it head on and that slowed us down ".
Q: Did you have any apprehension after your knee injury in February?
A: "When I resumed training in August and September yes, there was a bit of fear. We wonder if we will regain the lost level, we ask ourselves lots of questions. To make a good comeback like that, that feels good. Now I feel great physically, and psychologically too, because it wasn't easy lately, in training there were good days, days not so good, I didn't really surrender Considering where I was, I felt like I wasn't skiing very well. "
Q: How is the start of the season under the sign of Covid-19?
A: "The closed door does not change much for us, there is a good atmosphere in our discipline, and anyway we do not always have a lot of public in slopestyle. After, our next cup meeting of the world is only in January, it's a bit of a shame but we make do with it. It will give us time to work on training things that we don't usually have time to work on, and it will allow you to spend the holidays with your family.
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