On a springboard or a track, fear is a tenacious shadow.
It prowls, splits the armor, invites itself under the helmet or the cap, turns, disappears.
Before returning to torment, breaking in to haunt even the strongest.
There is the fear of the accident, which hangs on, chops up the nights, ties up the days, weighs on the stomach.
And fear glued to the appointment, to the result.
When long years of patient construction are played out in a few minutes or a handful of seconds.
Renowned protagonists of the
White Circus
or at the start of their careers, skiers live with these anxieties that are never completely tamed.
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