The new Ilka team for the last Olympic challenge
Ilka Štuhec will enter the Olympic season with a new coaching team. The role of a head coach in the Slovenian Alpine Ski team in fast disciplines is taken over Denis Šteharnikan expert with many years of experience in the World Cup. In the role of assistant coach will join him Boštjan Klinewhich after the end of his career goes into coaching waters for the first time.
The Austrian will take care of the preparation of the skis Benjamin Moser, for fitness preparation and physiotherapy Tina Kobaleaccording to a team of two -time world skiing champions.
Štuhčeva, who also decided to continue her career during the Olympic season, spent the first few days in the snow on the Austrian Mölltal Glacier, where she plans to return until the end of May. « I feel fresh energy and motivation with the new team. We have known each other with Denis and Boštjan for a long time, they are both ready to work hard. It will be most counted, « said Ilka, owning two small crystal globes.
He wants to be in the best shape when it is most needed. Photo: Christopher Creveling/Reuters
« After the end of my competitive career, I was looking for a coaching opportunity. As a competitor, I shared many for a moment at the highest level. Now I will follow it for the first time from a completely different perspective. I believe in its quality and potential and the team that is around it. I believe we will create an environment for confident and fast skiing, » he said.
Preparations for the new season will begin in the coming weeks, and the first focus will be on fitness preparation, which will be the basis for further work in the snow, the team of the only Slovenian competitor in skiing and super giant slalom between the elite said.
