Janica Kostelic
Janica Kostelic
Janica Kostelićis a former World Cup alpine ski racer and four-time Olympic gold medalist from Croatia. In addition to the Olympics, she won five gold medals at the World Championships. In World Cup competition, she won thirty individual races, three overall titles, three slalom titles, and fourcombined titles...
ProfessionSkier
Date of Birth5 January 1982
CityZagreb, Croatia
clear cup goal overall race taking time win
I am taking each race one at a time but it is clear that my goal is to win the overall World Cup title.
achieved best events expect five globe goal gold olympic season win winning
I did not expect to win the globe today. I achieved my goal of winning in all five events and then an Olympic gold medal. This really is my best season ever.
catch defend goal hill main position run satisfied sixth suited sure trouble winner
You can't be a winner every time. This hill isn't suited to me because it's so flat, and I had trouble with the light. So my main goal after I was sixth in the first run was to defend that position and I'm pretty satisfied that I did that. I wanted to make sure to catch 30 or 40 points.
happy otherwise tiny
I'm really happy about my first run. I only made one tiny mistake. Otherwise I skied very fast.
glad race
I'm glad it's all over, now I can race more relaxed.
feeling
I need more power. I'm feeling really weak.
good quite
It was a good run, but quite confusing,
race wondering
The whole day was confusing, as we were wondering if we were going to race or not. It was windy but it was windy for everyone,
bad came gate health race rest result second slope tried worse
The slope was bad (in the second run). When I came to the first gate I was scared, but then I just tried to concentrate and the rest of the race went well. The result was good, but my health is getting worse every day.
advised doctor
My doctor has advised me to take a break,
conditions difficult nicest seems
I was really surprised...but this is one of the nicest slopes for slalom and it seems the more difficult the conditions the better I do.
good huge injured shape skeptical
I was skeptical about my first race; I didn't have a very good preparation. It's a huge surprise. My shape wasn't so good because I was injured most of summer.
fun great looks love
She's such a great personality, ... She looks like she's always having fun and I love the way she skis downhill, technically.
downhill morning needed obvious racer ski stupid
It's kind of stupid what they did because it was obvious we couldn't ski downhill in the morning and they needed one racer to crash. It was not enough that two of the forerunners crashed.