Guest of the show Sport Première on RTS La 1ère, Camille Rast notably looked back on her good end to the season and talks about her expectations for the coming season.
With 7 races finished in the top-10 between January and March, the 25-year-old Valaisanne had a very good second half of the 2023/24 season. Enough to approach this new exercise with confidence. “I managed to pass some pretty important milestones. The preparation continued in this vein. So I’m really looking forward to being able to start the season. I’m looking forward to the first races“, confides the Vétrozienne.
“There is a lot of work and a lot of consistency in what I have done. I really worked physically with Florian [ndlr: Lorimier]. I often ended the seasons a little broken with injuries. Summers have never really been done 100% before“, Rast continues. “Last year, I really perhaps showed a little more maturity. I set things up to make it work. And I think all these little pieces put together allowed me to get to where I really wanted to be in January.“
“I love it when the races follow one another, when there is a rhythm. Everything really has to be precise, timed, manage fatigue, manage training. It’s something that I like and I think that’s what made this second part of winter a success“, analyzes Valaisanne again.
Places for the Saalbach World Championships will be expensive
Continuing his second part of the season, including two 4th places in slalom, a first podium seems to be reaching out to him in the discipline. “It’s not something I fixate on.“, she explains. “I know that if I ski while having fun and being physically well, I ski fast. So I hope to have a lot of fun this winter, so I can ski very, very quickly.“
Beyond the World Cup results, there is obviously the big meeting of the year with the World Championships in Saalbach between February 4 and 16. But there is no question of putting the cart before the horse. “We have a fairly strong technical team, especially in slalom. Tickets are going to be expensive. I hope to be present at the start of both disciplines. These are always pretty cool events and there are always big atmospheres that push us.” While waiting for these Worlds, the Valaisanne seems ripe to reach new levels this season and that will start on Saturday October 26 in Sölden, where she competed in her first World Cup race on October 22, 2016.
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Interview conducted by Laurent Bastardoz in Sport Première on RTS La 1ère.
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