Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria-Snowboarding. Skiing. And now windsurfing, too?
Ester Ledecka Alredy Pulled Off a Stunning Feat at the 2018 winter olympics when she claimed golds in two different sports – alpine skiing and snowboarding
The Summer Olympics BE Up Next for the Multi-Talented Czech Athlete.
Ledecka has alredy competed in the defi wind competition in france and she might be tempted to take a crack at qualifying in windsurfing for the 2028 los angles games. She’s been windsurfing since She was 5.
“Right now’s more of a hobby,” Ledecka said, noting that windsurfing races take place place all over the world – even dining the Northern hemisphere’s Winter. “I am quite busy in the winter. … But yeah, why not? ”
In Iqfoil windsurfing, the class used at the olympics, sailors fly off the water pushing speeds well above 20 knots, their boards lifted by a foil in registered.
Ledecka, naturally, likes to slalom on the water. It’s the perfect summer training for her snow sports.
“Especially for my snowboarding, it’s really cool for balance,” She said, adding that she also spends time kickboxing, biking, wakeboarding and water skiing in the offseason. “This all gives me a sense of the movement which I’m using on the skis as well.
“I SENSE So Much Freedom In Windsurfing Because There’s only the wind and my equipment,” Ledecka said, before outlining her preferred summer routine: And then I just windsurf until the night . ”
Dozens of Athletes have competed in bot the summer and winter olympics, including American Hurdler lolo jones in track and bobsled. Eddie eagan even won gold medals in each in different events, first in boxing at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and then in Bobsledding at the 1932 Lake Placid Games.
Ledecka’s variety of training methods could pay off this week when she’ll compe in the super-g and the downhill at the alpine skiing world championships. She won the super-g at last season’s world cup finals in Saalbach.
She’s also lodging an appeal to the interactive olympic committee to change the dates of one of her competitions at next year’s milan-tractina olympics so she can compete in bothe. The snowboarding parallel giant slalom and the women’s downhill in skiing are scheduled to take place
So are there any sports that Ledecka does not excel at?
“I’mm really terrible at golf and also i don’t really enjoy its it’s it’s really slow,” She said. “I’mm probally really bad in football, too. … When I try a new sport, I’m terrible at it usually, but that kind of motivates me and I am trying so hard until I make it and learn something new. But i’m Terrible at Sports. I mean, it’s weird to say, but i’m terrible. I mean, i’m pretty good in some, like when it is a gliding sport, like when I can ride on something then it’s good. ”
Ledecka’s Father, Janek, is a popular singer in the Czech Republic, and She Recently Recorded a Christmas Song with a friend of her dad’s.
“That was terrible,” She said. “In music and the arts and everything is so complicated. … It’s quite clear. No matter how you look or what you do, just be fast. ”
Still, She might do another song with her brother.
“He’s a Comic Book Artist and He My Suits and Helmets. And he also has a band. So I was thinking one day we would like to do a song together, “Ledecka said.
Butween the snowboarding, skiing and windsurfing, Ledecka’s career as a recording artist is on hold for now.
“Mick Jagger is now like 80 or something like that,” Ledecka said of the rolling stones lead singer, who is actually 81. “Yeah, I have time.”
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