Women’s SG St Moritz

[Tom Holtmann]

Pretty darn humbling:

"As we continue down an ever more costly club training model in our country, here we have a bucket brigade farming water out of a creek to prep one of the best skiers in the world for the upcoming parallel. There’s another video of her working on her starts in the horse gates she was invited to use by its owner - the German team. Her federation can’t afford one. Yet she pushed the indomitable Mikaela Shiffrin to her very limit in that parallel. To answer your question, they hauled 500 gallons in all, one bucket at a time."

That was super interesting and made me like her even more. It was depressing to see that one of the best skiers in the world has such poor financial support. By the way the video we are talking about was posted by Steve Porino on his Facebook page.