“It would be sour”: Felix Neureuther struggles with his youth skiers. “If I had just trusted the structure of the German Ski Association, then I would have had no chance of becoming a skier, no chance,” he says.

His father Christian played a large part in ensuring that Felix Neuruther didn't "sink out" among his peers. He always tried “from the outside” to “steer things so that it was in my interest”