THE SECRETS OF THEIR SUCCESS

Thank you to everyone who has been asking about the new winter sports site over at https://iceatrail.com/ I thought I’d add a quick index here for anyone interested in reading the interviews and product reviews over on the icy side!   For the home page, where you can easily navigate to everywhere else, just go to https://iceatrail.com/ The latest interview features are as follows: https://iceatrail.com/stepping-out-of-bounds-with-torah-bright/  https://iceatrail.com/ashleigh-pittaway/ https://iceatrail.com/beyond-skiing-everest-the-mike-marolt-story/ https://iceatrail.com/jessie-diggins-brave-enough/ https://iceatrail.com/elena-hight/  https://iceatrail.com/mani-cooper/ … Continue Reading ice a trail

Bastien Montès has good reason to smile. On 2nd April the French speed skier clocked 233.161 km/h (144.88mph) – the fastest anybody has skied this season – to win his second Speed Masters tournament in a row here in Vars. Throw in the 3rd place overall finish in this year’s World Cup, add last year’s World Championship title, and you have the makings of an athlete relatively content with his… Continue Reading Bastien Montès

What drives a person to clip on a pair of skis and point them down one of the steepest slopes in the world? What kind of person overcomes the dizzying fear that might paralyze lesser mortals, to focus solely on going faster than their competitors, to charge head first down a mountain at speeds in excess of 150mph? Hanging in a chairlift over the ranks of snow-shrouded pines, it’s easy… Continue Reading Valentina Greggio

  A dash of perspective before we get started today, if you don’t mind. Great Britain has no ice. It has no sliding track. Not a real one anyway. Nations like Germany, Canada, USA, Austria and Switzerland have home tracks. Some also have club systems nurturing sliders from the age of 11 – speed-obsessed youngsters who, before emerging from their teens, might have completed 2000 runs. A British slider will… Continue Reading Olympic Reflections Part 3: Mica Moore

Welcome back, fellow afflicted, to the post-Games recovery clinic. If like me you’re struggling to get over the spectacle of the Winter Olympics, then join me for continued treatment as we look back on Pyeongchang through the goggles and visors of its participants. Today’s guest is Skeleton bronze medal winner Laura Deas, who’s back on Planet Earth having ensured Team GB shared two thirds of the podium at the Alpensia… Continue Reading Olympic Reflections Part 2: Laura Deas

  If I’ve drawn one conclusion after interviewing Nancy Kerrigan it’s this: you don’t ask her about Tonya Harding. Not if you want answers anyway. Actually If I’m being  completely transparent here I’ll go a step further: I reckon that if she’s reading this there’ll be a fervent rolling of the eyes before the first paragraph’s out. But let me tell you something: I have nothing but admiration for the… Continue Reading Nancy Kerrigan

If you followed the winter Olympics at Pyeongchang with a stalker like obsession, this series might just be for you – and it’s definitely for you if you miss the Pyeongchang Games with something akin to chronic post-holiday blues. Yes, hold that chin aloft because together we shall assuage the sense of loss by reflecting upon and reviewing the 2018 Winter Olympics through the eyes of its participants. And where… Continue Reading Olympic Reflections Part 1: Mercedes Nicoll

  If somewhere in Lloyd Wallace’s fledgling years a door was opened, it’s one he’s had his shoulder to ever since. It’s true that some sports are vocations not available in equal measure to the masses, only truly accessible to the privileged few. You could say the same of skiing (although in years gone by I can recall driving to the Alps because I couldn’t manage a beach holiday, financially).… Continue Reading Lloyd Wallace

It’s difficult to ask Julia Dujmovits about her recollection of the Kaprun Funicular Disaster. But for a chance spontaneous decision, the tragedy would have claimed the future Olympic Parallel Slalom champion’s life alongside the 149 others who died in the smoke and flames that day. Seveteen years ago in the pretty Austrian ski resort a defective heating unit started a fire in the ascending train of the funicular, rupturing the… Continue Reading Julia Dujmovits

Dad was told by mother, goes the clunky classic by Sinatra, you can’t have one without the other. And so it goes with a bobsleigh pilot and her brakewoman. A partnership as enshrined as Iceman and Slider (and yes I dabbled with Maverick and Goose but their story didn’t end well, besides which the former pair was so aptly named for bobsleigh). So Having featured driver Mica McNeill here last… Continue Reading Mica Moore