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Up and Down!

30. January 2010

Its has been quite some time since I have written my last blog, but please
do not blame me because the pace of racing and trainings has been too serious
for me to be able to write exactly where we are and what is happening.

At this moment I am in St. Moritz, standing in front of a large, powerful door
that are raising feelings of curiosity, fear, but yet filling me with courage,
and dedication. This door is already known to me, but they were never colored
in such way.

Yes, I am afraid to step through them.
Season, which is taking place is full of climbs and falls. I haven`t yet been
able to win. I know, I have the capacity, but no. I did not realize my full
potential in the giant slalom.
I am not accustomed to the things, that are happening to me lately, so this
season is full of surprises.

Slalom! First on the Podium in the slalom. Now really I can realy say that I`m
a versatile skier! HOORAY!

In terms of results, it feels like I`m on some kind of a ‘rollercoaster ride’,
just like the ones they have in amusement parks, so the route is always taking
me and my uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup and dooooooooooooooown.
…. And I don`t need to explain which way it goes faster. Indeed, the curves
are more interesting, then just a straight line . Well I must say that I kind
of expected such unfolding of events, but it still takes a lot more effort to
keep the curves going up, then keeping them straight.

But, regardless of my curent capacity, I found myself before this door …
The door of the Olympics! … Is the road behind them winding,… is it going
down… or is it going up for me? … Well, I don`t know, but I keep my eyes
open! I am expecting everything! … Let the doors open!

Let the Olympic flame propell my blood!

Good luck and keep up with me!

Tina

Val d`Isere!

19. December 2009

I realy don`t have much luck here. The combination didn`t work out so well.
I realized that right after the downhill race in which I was a hefty four
seconds behind which was shocking for me, to say at least.
All that was still managable until that “lethal vertical”, but that`s when
bad luck struck.
I was skiing so fast that I could have broke trough to the fourth place, but
it just didn`t work out this time. I went for all or nothing, realy pushing
myself to the max, but sometimes things just don`t work out the way we want…
Downhill was canceled today which I think was best for the competitors.
There is a lot of talk about safety lately, but It`s still not reaching
levels as it should regarding the world cup.
Comments and complaigns from competitors are still not considered to the full
extend. The risks are huge, race schedule is intense and we all want best
results, breaking our backs to squeeze out our max to reach our dream, but
it`s easy to say that dreams already ended for some this season.
The sad thing is that the program ant venues of the events are usualy
determined by people that don`t realy ask themselves what this means for the
racers and their teams who have to cope with all that as best as they can.
Exhaustion and so called jet lag are hardly ever considered, although they
represent a great trouble.
I think that there is much better organization even in sports that are
considerably less risky than skiing.
My suggestion is that we look up to tennis. Main events are carefully planned
at exactly determined time, dates and venues. There are also diferent rules
when competitors change continetns, etc…

Tomorow is the last race before we are hedding home. I would be very happy
if I could return from this long and exhausting tour with rankings among first
three in super G. Anyway, we will have to wait until morning.

Keep the thumbs up for me!

Best regards to all!

Tina

Val d’Isere!

19. December 2009

I realy don`t have much luck here. The combination didn`t work out so well.
I realized that right after the downhill race in which I was a hefty four
seconds behind which was shocking for me, to say at least.
All that was still managable until that “lethal vertical”, but that`s when
bad luck struck.
I was skiing so fast that I could have broke trough to the fourth place, but
it just didn`t work out this time. I went for all or nothing, realy pushing
myself to the max, but sometimes things just don`t work out the way we want…
Downhill was canceled today which I think was best for the competitors.
There is a lot of talk about safety lately, but It`s still not reaching
levels as it should regarding the world cup.
Comments and complaigns from competitors are still not considered to the full
extend. The risks are huge, race schedule is intense and we all want best
results, breaking our backs to squeeze out our max to reach our dream, but
it`s easy to say that dreams already ended for some this season.
The sad thing is that the program ant venues of the events are usualy
determined by people that don`t realy ask themselves what this means for the
racers and their teams who have to cope with all that as best as they can.
Exhaustion and so called jet lag are hardly ever considered, although they
represent a great trouble.
I think that there is much better organization even in sports that are
considerably less risky than skiing.
My suggestion is that we look up to tennis. Main events are carefully planned
at exactly determined time, dates and venues. There are also diferent rules
when competitors change continetns, etc…

Tomorow is the last race before we are hedding home. I would be very happy
if I could return from this long and exhausting tour with rankings among first
three in super G. Anyway, we will have to wait until morning.

Keep the thumbs up for me!

Best regards to all!

Tina

This is it!

And it realy happened! … Exactly what I`ve expected. The good crime! First time this
season that I`ve climbed the winner stand in giant slalom. I am very pleased that the
curvature is rising. Now that the string of good results is constant and the realy hard
“ice” is broken I can relax a bit more when I`m racing.
I`m also very happy about slalom and I am going for the first 15. ranks next time!
Boy is that gonna be great! I needed three slaloms to progress among first 30. ranks, which
is already a great sucess for me. Having more that 400 points ( by FIS regulations ) gives
me the right to start after the first 15. Summer trainings are paying off and the trouble
we went trough, because we pushed ourselves although we were very tired, were not in vein.

Right now I`m looking forward to two days of well earned rest… My muscles are begging me
to take them somewhere warm, maybe sauna or a pool, so they can stretch on their own and not
by my dictation. They did very good lately and they realy deserve it!

The next destination is Val d` Isere!

… I will be in touch!
Talk to you soon from the scene of last years world cup!

Best regards to all!

Tina

hei hei sweden!

How are you all doing? I`m great, thanks!

I finally found some time to pour my words on a … computer – I was gonna say paper, but
I can`t. I like paper more then this typing. But OK, I must inform my faithfull fans every
now and then.

We made it to Europe and although we are most further north and realy far from Slovenia, I
think I feel more at home here. Sweden is our next big goal, where I hope we will commit
some “great crime”. It`s obvious In what way.

Canada is behind us and I can say that it was only partially sucessfull. I could have done
more, but then again, we had trouble since the beginning of the US tour. Well it wans`t all
that bad as they portraited it over the media. It`s true that I had problems in the second
downhill, but I was unpleasantly surprised because the critic was so instant, not like with
other competitors, who get credit for only mediocre performance. I think that`s not fair
to us who realy devote ourselves to the max. And by the way – one race doesn`t realy mean
so much, so it`s not the end of the world.

Two realy hellish weeks are now behind me and my team, full of bad accusations, while we
were realy trying to perform at our best and that is something I can`t accept gladly.
Sport career is usually webbed with ups and downs and we just have to learn to live with it.
… And how did you cope with gossip in school. Yes, you know what I`m talking about …
You got criticised sometimes too, but it was usually from your mum and dad, right?
Well in my case is quite the opposite – My parents support me, while the media and reporters
criticize. Fufff! I`m only glad that I have a strong team behind me who a supportive and
comforting in good and tough moments.

As for the globe – keep on dreaming with me! The girls are very strong this year and to win
the globe would only be a dream. I`m very pleased that I`m at the top of the rankings, but
there is still a long way until the end of the season. Current 4th position enspires me and
gives me motivation to progress even harder and higher, but the most important goal is still
the winter olympics!

I will need to focus even more this weekend. The last two trainings in sweden gave me a lot
of confidence and faith in myself. I was scared for a moment because of my clumsiness during
the first day of training, which was caused by so called “jet lag”, but things soon
returned to normal and European pace will be in my blood for sure until the race beggins.
Ore is the place of my last sovereign victory and I start to glow every time I remember that
vibrant day of the last race of the season. Oh how nice it would be to do it all over again …

I hope you are behind me and that this wish realy comes true!

Best regards to all!

Tina

United states …

Greetings from Colorado!

I wanted to write some encouraging words After Levi, but nothing positive realy happened
other than a good result on the track.
We had a real thriller with or luggage. It took almost five days for six pieces to arrive
and when it finally did, it was completely shatered and destroyed.

As if all this wasn`t enough, I got sick on the first day that I was supossed to start
with my trainings, so I`ve missed a few precious days right at the beginning. That was
the reason that I waited with my writing for a while, because I didn`t wan`t to leave a
bad impression after a good start in slalom this season. I was realy happy about the 12th.
position.
I am particularly proud about the steep part of the track, which I found extremely tough
in Levi a few years ago, but this year I`ve managed it without a glitch. I kept my rhythm
until the end and was still able to add trough the race. This means a lot to me, because
I know that that`s the only way to realy stand a chance against the best girls in slalom.

Among all other things I am realy honored to be nominated for the title:
“SLOVENIAN WOMAN OF THE YEAR”, which is organized every year by Jana magazine.
Altough thecompetition is realy fierces, I`m a fighter by nature, so I am going for victory
here as well. The only problem is that in this case winning doesn`t depend on me as in skiing.
This time it depends on you, so don`t hesitate and vote for me. Ha ha! To me, the fact
that I was nominated for such respected competition clearly shows that people apreciate my
work and effort that I am giving in skiing and I apreciate it a lot also.

We are now in the second stage of the long tour.
Only a few days still separates us from races in Aspen. My biggest wish is,  to get totally
well with my, still fragile health and having enough strenght for a good technical weekend.

Dear friends!
That`s all at this time! …
Keep on track in I will talk to you soon!

Sincerely yours!

TINA

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Between SOLDEN and LEVI!

Our tour has began! … And It is realy good start for us!
4th place in Solden proves that I am still touching the top in giant slalom. And other girls also
did not ski so well that thay could not be beaten as the season progresses. The thing that I need
most right now is to focus.

I had a great support this time in Solden. Not only from my faithfull fans from my home town, but
also from my parents and close relatives, that came to cheer for me. They were here for the first
time and they were thrilled overthe spectacular scenery and landscape which Solden has to offer.

I spent a few short days at home after the race. I managed to find some time just for myself,
enjoyng my daily cup of hot latte in my favorite bar »Urska« and attending phisycal trainings in
my beautifull home town.
… But time flyes when you are having fun and too soon I had to prepapre for another long journey.
This time our first stop was the ski resort Turachehohe and from there on the road led us to the
north of Germany – to ski hall Wittenburg.
The hall lies north of Hamburg and it was a pleasant surprise for me, although I was never realy
keen about enclosed ski resorts for trainings. You can not realy practice anything but slalom on
this track, but i feel it was a good thing for my preparation. The conditions in such resorts are
always great and consistent, so you do not have to tremble what mother nature has in store.

… Now we are in Levi, Finland.
I was always impressed by their name – LEVI ( »left« in Slovenian language ), Maybe because I then
get so many thougts about »right«. And the It makes me wonder – what If people were only skiing
left turns back in the old days   … but that is just my imagination talking and that is
something that does not exist in the »real world« of professional skiing.

At the moment all my focus is on a skiing discipline for which I have special feelings, because
I was never realy able to master it to my maximum, although that was always my great expectation,
so I have put a lot of effort in it in this years preparations. I was also more patient towards it
compared to previous seasons, so maybe I can count on even better results this season.

This discipline is called SLALOM! …
My father compares it with Rock n Roll, with which I agree completely. It demands extremly
rapid moves and great agility. When I think of slalom, one name comes to my mind, and that is
Vreni Schneider, who used to »fight« with the track like there was no tomorrow, and that is
the attitude that I like the most. I hope such energy will also by my driving force this season,
and if all of my wishes come true, the results will go to the top as well! …

Dear friends!  That is all for now …

Keep on tracking my »SNOW BATTLE« with fingers crossed, and my WEBSITE for further
INFO, IMAGES and BLOG as the season progresses.

THANK YOU!
Love and kisses!
TINA

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