YANQING, China (Reuters) – French Alpine skier Tessa Worley is unfazed by the robust competitors within the big slalom on the Beijing Olympics and feeling extra relaxed than on the 2018 Video games in South Korea which resulted in disappointment for her, she stated on Saturday.
Requested if she noticed herself among the many favourites within the girls’s big slalom on Monday, she stated: “I might be mendacity if I stated no.”
Worley, who lies second within the World Cup big slalom standings this season, completed seventh within the self-discipline on the 2018 Olympics and twenty eighth within the super-G.
“The take-away from Pyeongchang is that I got here with all of the playing cards and couldn’t carry out,” Worley instructed a information convention. “I used to be too closed, too targeted on the only real sporting facet. It’s a novel occasion and it’s good to take pleasure in each second of it.
“I’m having enjoyable on the skis and it reveals. It’s one thing that enables me to be relaxed on the skis and to offer the whole lot. I do know the competitors is hard however you must stay the second and luxuriate in.”
She’s going to discover tough rivals on the Beijing Video games in Sweden’s Sara Hector, who leads the enormous slalom World Cup standings, 2018 Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the US and Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova, the 2019 world champion.
“In big slalom there are a whole lot of ladies who can carry out. We’re at the very least a dozen (who’re) capable of find yourself on the rostrum. You possibly can anticipate something; it’s the self-discipline the place the competitors is the hardest.”
(Reporting by Julien Pretot, writing by Shadia Nasralla; enhancing by Clare Fallon)
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