Featured Picture: Jacqueline Wiles (left) and Jared Goldberg (proper) within the begin of World Cup races. Credit score: GEPA
In episode 24 of the Snowboarding is Believing podcast, Matt and Alan welcomed two of the Stifel US Ski Staff’s most interesting downhill and super-G racers, Jared Goldberg and Jacqueline Wiles.
Each racers expressed their positivity in direction of the top of final season once they each skied in Saalbach’s FIS World Cup finals, Goldberg in Tremendous-G and Wiles in Downhill.
In the identical week that Salt Lake Metropolis was chosen to host the 2034 Winter Olympics, Goldberg, a prime alpine racer from Utah, expressed the robust place of ski racing within the USA and his aspirations for larger success within the upcoming season.
Wiles mentioned the particular connection she holds with the Olympia slope in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the place she secured two World Cup podium finishes. This location will host the ladies’s occasions for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Goldberg additionally reminisced about his profitable races on Italian snow, with 4 of his six World Cup top-ten outcomes approaching the basic Saslong course of Val Gardena.
Matt and Alan requested the 2 what their hopes are for the upcoming season, they usually each shared their eager ambitions to enhance on their private bests whereas being constant all through the season.
Though it’s a World Championship 12 months, a number of racers, equivalent to Goldberg and Wiles, are aiming for consistency throughout the complete season as an alternative of focusing solely on reaching a single excellent outcome on the World Championships in Saalbach.
There’s enhanced motivation to qualify for the 2025 FIS World Cup Finals for Stifel US Ski Staff athletes, as it’s being hosted on dwelling snow in Solar Valley, Idaho.
Lastly, Goldberg advised us his motivation to begin ski racing was enjoyable and the way younger skiers “want to verify snowboarding is the primary love and racing is the second.” He continued, “That is the kind of mentality that each one wannabe racers ought to possess.”
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