Featured Picture: Mike Janyk racing slalom in 2014. Credit score: GEPA
In episode 21 of the Snowboarding is Believing podcast, Matt Garcka, and Alan Rigg had the pleasure to welcome former Canadian slalom star Mike Janyk as the most recent visitor of the summer time sequence.
Mike mentioned his path to changing into a World Championship medalist within the 2009 Val d’Isere slalom, a feat he achieved greater than two years after his FIS World Cup slalom podium in Beaver Creek.
Mike additionally expressed among the few regrets from his astonishing profession, throughout which he achieved 27 FIS World Cup, top-10 outcomes.
Moreover, he talked concerning the astonishing out-of-body expertise within the mountains, which led Mike to retirement after the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Mike’s sibling, Britt, participated in alpine ski racing as effectively, and he or she achieved victory within the World Cup in Aspen in 2007. He recounts a number of exceptional moments they shared, such because the FIS World Cup Finals, the Olympics, and the World Championships.
One other spotlight for him that he reminisced on was launching the Mike and Manny Camp with fellow Canadian racer Manny Osborne-Paradis again of their race days.
Just lately, he had the chance to market his incredible e book, Go to the Begin: Life as a World Cup Ski Racer, printed 18 months in the past.
Matt and Alan, in fact, completed with the quick-fire questions the place you may study Mike’s favourite place to ski.
Please tell us what you assume by way of Instagram @skiingisbelievingpodcast, the place subsequent week, we will likely be conducting our second LIVE podcast. That will likely be a quiz-only episode the place you may check your FIS World Cup data in 5 enjoyable rounds. You too can contact us by way of e mail at mattgarcka.skiingisbelieving@gmail.com
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