From the very top to the very bottom

When Anna Veith drives, as in these days through your home to smiles you will ever own. Posters abound the streets across Austria, where the salt she advertises.

Anna Veith is a Skier, 29, successful and marketable. Twice she was the Best ever, the Association's President, Peter Schrock needle, you called her a national heroine. To Ski very well, a lot can trigger in the neighbouring country. To be the Best, can start an avalanche. In the winters of 2013/14 and 2014/15, the Veith was, and the avalanche rolled over them.

she tried in the first place, not to be overwhelm by all of this, what einprasselte on you. It took time, until you succeeded, "until I could see the attention to time to enjoy".

"don't like to get in the heart"

this weekend the races in Semmering, Austria, home, focus on you. Veith says: "Actually, I'm not made for the Public. I'm not quiet, like standing in the center, watch better from the outside." But she has learned not only to arrange themselves with the interest of your Person"", as she says it, but to see the opportunity in it. "To make money, for me, is actually secondary," she says. "But I have built a Team around me, I'm trying to get the Best deal. I also want to be well positioned in this area. In a way, I am as ambitious as it is in sports."

years had it lasted, until you've noticed what to her fit, "what I strive for in addition to the runway". Advertising is the one that the Hotel, which leads you together with husband Manuel Veith and his family in Schladming, the other. Has just opened their ski rental Shop.

From the overthrow of the consequences of thwarted

Veith was recently forced to take an increasing interest in the fields next to the sports. In 2015, her body had pulled the emergency cord, "I had often moved me beyond my limits." Three days before the kick-off in Sölden, you crashed hard. It is the cruciate ligament, the tendon, ligament and the patella in my right knee cracks. And Veith was afraid. Afraid to lose the joy of their big passion. To go "with pain Ski, makes no Fun. The most Important thing was that I get a handle on it," she says.

The managed moderately, she returned in 2016, after the world Championships 2017 in St. Moritz she broke the season but to the inflamed patellar tendon in the other knee to have the surgery.

last Winter, the next Comeback. With one goal in mind: to be at the Olympic games in South Korea in top form. "Everything was designed," she says. It Olympia came in, it was the Super-G and Veith sass actually came in the Leaderbox. Driver to driver failed due to their time. Up with the number 26 Ester Ledecka 22-year-old Czech, favourite, started, – however, in the case of the Alpine snowboard inside. She sat down to a hundredth ahead of Veith and won the Gold.

silver is a large wage

All of the skiers, beaten by a snowboarder. Veith says: "I Might not have had it 100 per cent, on the invoice, but to me it was always clear that Ester is celebrating a major success, because she is so fearless and extremely physically fit." Veith was able to accept it, the silver back was a great reward for your struggle.

Now the end of 2018. Veith has been a mixed Start to the Winter. In Courchevel, she was most recently Seventh in the giant slalom, it was her third Top-10 place and for you to be a step in the right direction.

working The knee, she says. Still not a matter of course. "I will always think of my knee. It just plays too big a role in the sport of skiing," says Veith. "But I can say that I have a lot of Fun." Perhaps even more than in the past. "I worked so single-mindedly that I didn't see what happened around it. At once I was ripped out of there, came back and realized what a huge privilege I have. I can drive on a perfectly made-up, closed-off Piste," says Veith. "When I finish my career, no more isolation for me the slope." You don't have to do in Austria for a national heroine. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 27.12.2018, 10:39 PM