You won four races in December. You seem unstoppable ...
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde:
It's amazing.
I could never have imagined it less than a year after my knee injury.
It's amazing to have been able to come back so quickly and to such a level.
Do you still have sequelae on a daily basis?
I must always be careful, the body must be treated with respect.
My recovery after a race is not the same, I still have pain in my knee.
I can't have such a busy schedule as before, my knee couldn't handle it.
At least for this season I have to be careful.
You seem even stronger than before your injury ...
I worked on my physical weaknesses during the rehabilitation. I watched a lot of ski videos trying to find where I could improve. Now I understand better what it takes to be fast, and when it is useless to be too fast. I am a powerful person, but in skiing you need the complete package. I don't have to use 100% of my power all the time like before. I have a better awareness of my muscles, control of my body and its balances. I started again from zero, in particular on the bodybuilding of the legs, by working the smallest + muscles so that they are more complementary to the bigger ones. It came naturally, after an operation you cannot do heavy weight training. I am also stronger mentally, more balanced. II also worked on my technique, how to keep the right position on very difficult passages like in Bormio.
You are 2nd in the general classification, 276 points behind the Swiss Marco Odermatt. Do you have hopes of a second big globe?
I will give a boring answer but as always I take the races one after the other.
I have already won the general, it was great.
My main goal is to do it again but with my knee I have to be careful, I don't want to injure myself again.
Without competing for all the giants, I will have a hard time keeping pace with Marco Odermatt.
But if I continue as in December, there is no doubt that my ranking will be very good.
When will we see you again on a giant slalom (he only competed in the super-G and downhill this winter)?
I will play the one in Adelboden (Switzerland) on January 8th.
I can not wait to be there.
In a month's time, the Olympic Games will be held in Beijing (February 4-20). You will come there with many victories behind you ...
I am confident, and I want to keep that confidence until the Games and until the end of the season.
But these Games will be different, it's the unknown, no one has been able to test the track yet.
Do you feel like the heir to recent Norwegian gold medalists like Svindal, Jansrud, Aamodt?
It's a bit big to wear.
What they have accomplished is immense.
I hope of course to continue this Norwegian series but it's easy to say ...
What memory do you think of the Olympics?
I keep an excellent one from the Pyeongchang descent in 2018, with the double of Aksel (Svindal) and Kjetil (Jansrud), despite a very difficult race preparation. It had been a wonderful day for the team. Of course I was disappointed because I was also very fast, but I had made a big mistake (15th), this day could have been even more beautiful.
Are you planning a medal competition with your partner Mikaela Shiffrin?
I'm smart enough not to engage in such bets with her!
Look at her stats, she's on a whole new level.
We talk about the Olympics together, we see them as a new experience, trying to stay positive despite the context, we help each other to maintain confidence.