Emma Aicher: The riddle of the racing snail | EUROtoday

Is this now modesty? Or already conceitedness? Maybe simply the reality? In any case, the self-description on Emma Aicher’s Instagram account reads: I nap
and ski generallyI take naps and generally ski. The emoji: a snail.

Since the 22-year-old, born in Sundsvall, Sweden, received two silver medals in two days and missed gold twice by 9 hundredths of a second, everybody has been asking: How does she do it? And it is true: her slalom trip by means of the forest of poles within the workforce mixture, with which she and her duo associate Kira Weidle-Winkelmann catapulted from sixth place to second, appeared utterly unspectacular at first look; not a frontal assault with speedy swings, however reasonably, properly, snail-like and by some means sleepy. Her rivals put in a number of effort and she or he merely went downhill. But the reality was on the clock: 44.38 seconds, the most effective time of the day, a clean second quicker than the most effective slalom skier in historical past, the American Mikaela Shiffrin. In this self-discipline, issues are worlds aside. So how does Emma Aicher do it?