Julia Mancuso
Julia Mancuso
Julia Marie Mancusois an American World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and was the silver medalist in both downhill and combined in 2010, and the bronze medalist in the combined in 2014. She has also won five medalsat the World Championships and seven races in regular World Cup competition. Her four Olympic medals are the most ever for a female American alpine skier...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSkier
Date of Birth9 March 1984
CityReno, NV
CountryUnited States of America
Because it was bad weather it made it seem less like the Olympics because you always dream of the Olympics as just the perfect race.
The best part about Maui is that I can spend a lot of time outside. My off-season is April, May, and June.
Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.
The World Cup is sort of what we do. The Olympics are sort of a bonus.
They are not convinced I'm American; they think I'm Italian.
For me, it makes me focus on each race singularly. It's not so much tactics. You just have to go out there and have your best slalom race, because that's the only place you can win or lose the combined. It's hard to take risks in the downhill.
It's really inspiring to see somebody go down so hard and come back and compete -- and do such a good job.
I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it's always the love that gets me to the podium.
I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.
I can see it's going to take a really good run to get on the podium. The girls are racing so well. I'm really going to have to take my tucks well.
I do Nike Training Club, which is actually really hard and intense. I'm surprised every time I do it. I also use Map My Ride and Map My Run.
I've got a little bit of Italian in my heart.
The combined really needs to change format. We've had some super combined (consisting of one downhill and one slalom run) on the World Cup. That's a pretty good format. Or make the downhill longer and more difficult.
The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.