It´s been a crazy week after the medal but it´s been so much fun! A
dream came true and every single hour of training that I made the past
years was totaly worth it!
At the moment I´m in Reiter Alm for some ski testing/training before
the final in Garmisch on Saturday. I will probably also ski the team
event on Sunday. Skiing is still working fine and I´m in good shape
for the last race.
The plan is another SL session tomorrow and afterwards me, Matte and
Anton will go to the Nordica factory in Mittersill.
We´ll stay here in Reiter Alm until Thursday, take Thursday off and
just travel to Garmish. Will presumably not be a hill skiing on
Friday, in that case we´re aiming on a short session in the downhill
slope after the GS just to get the feeling for teh snow.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GREETINGS!!!!! 3/3
I´ve landed in Sweden and it was a nice reception in Arlanda.
"TvåBackar Läsk", a.k.a TBL had put up their stuff in Sky City at
Arlanda and we played 2 songs together. Of course "Kommer hem med
Metall", the song me and TBL gave out together as a single before the
Olympics! We actually planing on doing an english version of it in the
near future...stay tuned!
If you havn´t seen it yet, check it out on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znk-zZi2fdI
Anyway I just want to say Thank You to everybody for all of your nice
greetings. I really appreciate it and it means a lot!! Thank you so
much!!
Today I´ll go to Bergsjö for some celebrations at 16.00 at
"Bergsjögården" and after that I´ll go to my parents house for some
nice dinner. Me and my dad will share a glas of fine 16 years
Lagavulin whiskey that I bought for him to celebrate the medal :)
YES!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good training on Soft slope 25/2
Today we been training at the ladies GS hill after their 2nd run. It
felt good and I made 3 runs, pretty soft, but ok. Tomorrow we´ll do
the same and then it´s time for race! :)
We had our press conference today and it went well. Felt like they
where in good mood and so are we, really looking forward to Saturday!
Yesterday we went down to the "Sweden house" over in Whistler. We had
dinner and played some pool and it was very nice to get away from the
village for a while.
Now it´s bed time!
DNF in GS 23/2
I´ve done my first start in the 2010 olympics. I was actually skiing
pretty good before my mistake, I was 1,40 behind on the 2nd split.
Feels good that the GS skiing is starting to work better and better.
You see also that the startnumbers is doing a lot in the GS, it´s that
much easier if you start behind top 30 compared to 50 like I usually
do. I need to lower my points, question is how, where and when..!
Important though is that I have a feeling from the snow and that I´ve
been on the start and felt the olympic atmosphere.
Tomorrow we´ll have a day off and charge our batteries. Will be fun,
maybe I´ll go to "downtown" Whistler and check it out.
Nr 34 (!) Tomorrow 22/2
Another day passed in the olympic village. We made the hill skiing and
I feel ok for tomorrow. Snow is a bit diffrent from Park City but not
much. The tricky thing is that it´s pretty aggressive from the start
and then it get´s more and more like frozen springsnow further down.
But all in all good conditions. I have nr 34 aswell so it should be
fine!!
I´m excited to finaly race and with two good runs, everything is
possible. My goal is to finish in the top 15 so we can get some points
in the WC SL list, otherwise we´ll loose one GS spot in thw WC next
year.
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere, which is a great song by the way, I´ll do my
best and I´ve nothing to loose. I´m ready!
No skiing Today 21/2
No skis came overnight, so no skiing today. I was up at the slope
though and watched the SL run in the super combined. Looked good, I
like the hill, snow seemed also to be ok.
Tomorrow I´ll go for some GS hill skiing and also a short training.
The skis came this afternoon so I should be all set for tomorrow.
Our hockey guys where playing good tonight against the Finns, if they
continue like this they have a good shot at defending the gold medal
from Turin.
Relaxing day... 20/2
I´ve been having a nice day here in the olympic village. I changed
apartment, took over Järbyn (the warrior)´s room, who was going home
today. After the circumstances he was doing ok, dissapointed but ok.
On the first floor we have a small ping-pong table so I´ve been
playing some hard matches against Hans there. I also watched the mens
30k´ skiathlon event and that was the most exciting cross-country race
I´ve seen in a long time. Congrats to Hellner and Olsson, amazing,
what a performance!! Nice work guys!
Jonas my service guy came today, without skies. They didn´t got their
luggage with them, missing 11 pieces. So I don´t know what´s happening
tomorrow, I´m suppose to ski some GS turns but if I don´t have
anything to ski on then I have a problem...They said the stuff should
arrive tonight so I´ll have it tomorrow but you never know. Doesn´t
matter though, I think another day of rest is good for me.
I took some pictures today but due to SOK regulation I´m not aloud to
puplish them on my homepage. Stupid but rules are rules I guess.
Now I´ll go to bed and read a book, I´m reading a great book about
Djingis Khan named "Bones of the Hills", the third boook in a serie
about the great conqueror Khan. I can recommend it!
