Is it possible to get out of breath by listening to a summer talk? Yes actually.
The giant slalom star Sara Hector tells with such empathy that even those who have never ridden a pair of skis suddenly feel the pursuit of every hundredth, the power of every turn, the pounding heart and how the body screams. In between, gruesome situations from almost 13 years at the top of the world – like an involuntary red-pink competition suit – are mixed with a story of willpower, doubt, mental ghosts and love.
Listening to Sara Hectors Summer in P1 is to be thrown into an emotional storm. Anyone who watches the alpine circus on TV during the winter weekends will recognize themselves.
Sara Hector can both bubble with joy, and cohesiveness saw itself. When it comes to decisive competitions, she has been in the habit of completely going into her bubble – and answering briefly and super-focused in interviews. Getting a few embroidered quotes the day before a World Cup or Olympic start is an almost impossible task for a journalist. In other contexts, she offers herself, and in her summer talk, the same competitive person speaks unhindered and self-disclosing, with a dressy self-distance where she sometimes almost laughs at her own actions.
Who ate that time when she as a child disappeared from a competition but was found bullshit in a “stick booth” – because she only finished second.
It is strongest when the 29-year-old turns directly to his ALS-sick mother on the air
Sara Hector was equal unexpected as a clear favorite ahead of the Beijing Olympics this winter. She kept her nerves together even though she barely slept a nap, and won Sweden’s first giant slalom gold in 30 years. On the journey there, she has learned to deal with both a tough knee injury and constant performance anxiety, but also tough periods on the more personal level.
Hector tells openly about how she was saved from developing a regular eating disorder in her late teens, when she “knocked in food anxiety” as part of her training routine. But it is strongest when the 29-year-old turns directly to his ALS-sick mother on the air. The voice gets stuck and the tempo becomes different.
Every now and then the hunt for hundreds is far away.
read more about this year’s summer talker and more texts by Lisa Edwinsson
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