Home, sweet home! „A house of my own means freedom, calm and safety to me”. Marlies Schild thinks also openly about further family planning in an interview she gives in the summer after her great comeback. “With 29, it’s a good point of time, too.” However, Marlies does not want to take the short swing into the joys of motherhood (like Renate Götschl last year). “I enjoy the new element in my training: yoga. Benni has to join me. It’s a wonderful supplement to the strength training.  

With Yoga and football to success

Apropos strength training – double Olympics winner and three times world champion Benjamin Raich has trained in an alternative way, too, this year. On the building site. And: football, apposite to the big topic of this summer: “Training in the same way all the time is like eating the same stuff everyday – then your senses get dull, new stimuli are very important.” Both, however, do not experiment when it comes to their material for the next World-Cup winter with highlight in Garmisch, just a one hour drive away from Pitztal: “It’s almost a home World Cup for us. In Garmisch, we’ll be in top positions with this material, and Atomic is already providing a basis for that. I want to do my bit, hopefully again with more big points this winter …”