February 15, 2025 • 10 mins
A pioneering moment for skier Alice Robinson in Austria.
She's secured a maiden world championship medal - a silver - in the giant slalom.
She joined Elliott Smith to recap the win.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks edb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well a big resolve for Kiwi skare Alice Robinson this week,
winner of.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The silver medal representing you Zealer Allis rob it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So Yes, indeed, she baged the silver medal in the
women's giant slalom at the Alpine Skiing World Championships in Sealbuch,
and she joins us now on news Talk zib Alisa,
thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hi, Yeah, thanks for having me well, Alice.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
A few days on from your silver medal and the
Giant Slalom World Championships in Austria, has it sunk in yet?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah? No, it's It's been a really really awesome few days.
It's been busy and exciting, but yeah, it's just a
great feeling and just yeah, ready to get on with
the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Now, I guess did you feel like you've been in
good form leading into the World Championships.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, I think felt really good this whole season. I've
been really happy with where my skiings at, with my consistency,
and I just had to win a couple of weeks
before the World champ so I was feeling like I
was in a good spot, and yeah, it's been ski
racing and anything can happen on the day, so it
was just a great feeling to be in good form
and be able to execute as well.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I know in one interviewer story you mentioned the conditions
heading into the race and mentioning that were a little
bit tricky. What were they like for us and how
did you adapt?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, it was challenging. I guess I'd been quite cold
and winter like the last week or ten days before
the race, and the night before the race it was
raining and quite like foggy and wet, so the snow
changed a lot from the conditions that we were training on.
Was a lot more like spring conditions, like softer snow,
which I've always found quite challenging. So that was the
(01:56):
only thing I was a little bit nervous about was
the conditions. But I think I've learned, I mean, getting
better at being a bit more all rounded before the
difference so snow conditions. So I was happy with the
adjustments and I managed to make it work.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You sure did. You mentioned the winning Cromplatz a few
weeks ago. You got a top podium there in the
World Cup event. How big was that for your confidence
heading into the World Championships.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, I mean it was so special. It was like
my first win in four years. I mean I had
a lot of podium form, but it was nice to
finally take that office, getting the win again. And it's
nice to go into a big event with yeah, with
a big confidence booster and something like that, and it's
good going. It's exciting going to these like World champs
and big events knowing you've got potential to do something.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What's changed, Alice? You mentioned the first win in four years,
which is fantastic in Cromplatz, and obviously a silver medal
here and now in a couple of days ago in Austria.
So what have you done to change and how tough
have the last four years been for you not getting
a victory under the belt.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, for sure. I think I had a cutoue quite
challenging years where I had a lot of crashes. It
kind of it was during like the COVID times. I
found really tough being so young and so far away
from home and then getting COVID and missing big events
and crashing a bit, and it was a bit of
a mess. And then I changed equipment and it took
me a year to kind of get that organized. And
(03:25):
then last the last season, this like last year and
this season have both been really good. Last year, I
was just second a lot, so I was in you know,
spots to be winning races, but I missed the book
and wins by like one one hundreds one time and
then by a couple of tenths another time, So it
was still good. I was still in really good form
(03:45):
last year and it was just nice to that the
hundreds went my way and I got a wed this
year and hopefully we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Next on that. Changed to the equipment hat trick is
it to adjust to new equipment when you've become so
adapted to to one style and then going into new
equipment For leg people out there, just to explain for
us how tricky it is to get used to new
equipments on the slopes.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, so I switched to Solomon two years ago, and
it's definitely it's a huge adjustment. I mean, equipment's very
important and skew racing, and sometimes you can switch and
things work straight away, and then other times it takes
a process to you have to do a lot of testing,
a lot of trial and error with getting the equipment sorted.
So it did take me a bit of time to
(04:34):
get it sorted in it but now I'm like, have
it dialed in and it's good. But it's a big
process because it's, Yeah, you're changing pretty much everything, and
the brand that I've spot was using before I'd used
my whole life. So it was definitely a bit of adjustment,
just learning what works and trying out everything. But then
it's worked out for the best.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Now you're posting some great results. As we've discussed in
the Giant slalom, you obviously compete in the Super G
as well. Where are you at and that discipline and
is it fear to say that the Giant Slalom is
the favorite of the two disciplines.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah. GS is where I've had pretty much all my
success success and so it's for sure my favorite. It's
more technical than Super G and it's where I've had
all my podiums and wins. And Super G and downhill
a bit more speed events and SUPERG. I've been kind
of chipping away at it for the last few years,
and I'd like to take that next step and be
(05:28):
on the podium. I just have been putting a bit
more focus on GS, but my goal is to be
as competitive in super G as I am in GS,
and I'm still working towards it and doing all the
World Cups and just trying to get better at that too.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Que Alpine scare Alice Robinson with US on Week in
Sport this afternoon on News Talk ZB. Alisa, obviously you've
detailed the difference is there, But does the confidence of
the good results in Giant slalom give you a little
bit more confidence as you head into the Super G
events now that you've got some podiums in the other discipline, Yeah,
(06:03):
for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I mean they're they're very different, but there's i mean
they're still on skis and you're still making turns, so
it's different, but it's you definitely can carry the confidence
from GS over into that and it's I really enjoy
doing the speed events and then downhill again is another
event that I'm trying to come and chick away it
as well, but it's even higher speed. So for sure
(06:23):
confidence from GS translates over. But there's still a lot
of technical and tactical elements of super gene downhill, which
are quite different to GS.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You mentioned the season continues after the World Championship, So
what does the next few months look like for Alice
Robinson on the slopes.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, the next like five six weeks are pretty crazy.
We get pretty much straight back into it this week.
This coming week we've got to Giant Solm World Cups
in Italy on Friday and Saturday, so that's quite a
big weekend. And then we've got pretty much We've got
speed races and Norway, then another GS race in Sweden,
(07:02):
then back to Italy for another speed race, and then
finally at the end of March, we have the World
Cup finals in Sun Valley in the US, so heading
back over there and then we're wrapped up at the
end of March. But yeah, every weekend now till the
end of March has got a World Cup event. Tom
solo doesn't really stop.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We're under a year now from the Olympic Games, the
Winter Olympics in twenty twenty six in Milan, Courtina. In fact,
they'll be on this time in a year exactly. So
to the recent run of results give you some confidence,
I mean a long way out of course, but as
you eye that way down the track that you know
you're on the right track, so to speak. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I mean I'm just taking every race break by race
and not thinking too much about Cortina and the Olympics
as yet, but for sure it's always the back of
my mind, and they're definitely starting to get a bit
more talk about it coming up. But yeah, still a
lot to do before then, so you can start worrying
about those results next year.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, going to plan Alis, this will be your third
Olympic Games next year, after visits in twenty eighteen and
twenty twenty two. Will you use you know, ideas of
how you win at those games and how you prepared
for those games. Will you put that into your preparation
of how you get ready for next year's Olympic Games.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I think I'll probably just be doing more of the
same of what I've been doing these last couple of years,
and we have like a World Cup schedule that we
do every year, and for me at the Olympics next year,
I'm not going to treat it any differently to another
World Cup race. So I'm just going to be doing
more of the same. It's going to be easy. It's
in a venue that I've been to plenty of times,
and I know the area really well and I know
the slope, so I'm just going to be taking it.
(08:41):
It's just another race. And then it's just special that
you get to have the Olympic rings and you get
to represent New Zealand, but for me, the preparation is
going to be the same.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Fantastic. Well, we look forward to the Olympics and your
competition in there, but for the time being, we look
forward to hearing about and seeing your results on the
slopes in the coming weeks for the rest of your season.
Alis Robinson, thank you very much for your time here
on News Talk ZB this afternoon. Thank you see seeyep,
that's Alice Robinson joining us on Weekend Sport this afternoon.
(09:10):
Here we Alpine Scare and you're finding some real form
at the moment, which is fantastic. I know. She's, as
she mentioned there, sort of had a few ups and
downs in the last few years and burst onto the scene.
Had struggled for a bit around COVID. Great to see
her back and competing well for New Zealand and you
look a year a here a sole ahead. Some of
(09:30):
those names Zoe Sadowski, Sint Nico Portius, Alice Robinson, Luca
Harrington's been doing some great stuff as well, and there
are probably a couple of others that I'm neglecting to mention.
It seems a long time ago since New Zealand had
that one solitary Winter Olympics middle and you know with
(09:51):
Analie Coberger in the nineties, great success in twenty eighteen,
twenty twenty two, better again. What my twenty twenty six
bring Milan Quartine I think starts around the sixth of
February next year. Fascinating See how our key which snow
athletes go. It's a boon time for the sport that
is for short.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine. Listen live
to news talks at b weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks edb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well a big resolve for Kiwi skare Alice Robinson this week,
winner of.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The silver medal representing you Zealer Allis rob it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So Yes, indeed, she baged the silver medal in the
women's giant slalom at the Alpine Skiing World Championships in Sealbuch,
and she joins us now on news Talk zib Alisa,
thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hi, Yeah, thanks for having me well, Alice.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
A few days on from your silver medal and the
Giant Slalom World Championships in Austria, has it sunk in yet?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah? No, it's It's been a really really awesome few days.
It's been busy and exciting, but yeah, it's just a
great feeling and just yeah, ready to get on with
the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Now, I guess did you feel like you've been in
good form leading into the World Championships.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, I think felt really good this whole season. I've
been really happy with where my skiings at, with my consistency,
and I just had to win a couple of weeks
before the World champ so I was feeling like I
was in a good spot, and yeah, it's been ski
racing and anything can happen on the day, so it
was just a great feeling to be in good form
and be able to execute as well.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I know in one interviewer story you mentioned the conditions
heading into the race and mentioning that were a little
bit tricky. What were they like for us and how
did you adapt?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, it was challenging. I guess I'd been quite cold
and winter like the last week or ten days before
the race, and the night before the race it was
raining and quite like foggy and wet, so the snow
changed a lot from the conditions that we were training on.
Was a lot more like spring conditions, like softer snow,
which I've always found quite challenging. So that was the
(01:56):
only thing I was a little bit nervous about was
the conditions. But I think I've learned, I mean, getting
better at being a bit more all rounded before the
difference so snow conditions. So I was happy with the
adjustments and I managed to make it work.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You sure did. You mentioned the winning Cromplatz a few
weeks ago. You got a top podium there in the
World Cup event. How big was that for your confidence
heading into the World Championships.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, I mean it was so special. It was like
my first win in four years. I mean I had
a lot of podium form, but it was nice to
finally take that office, getting the win again. And it's
nice to go into a big event with yeah, with
a big confidence booster and something like that, and it's
good going. It's exciting going to these like World champs
and big events knowing you've got potential to do something.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What's changed, Alice? You mentioned the first win in four years,
which is fantastic in Cromplatz, and obviously a silver medal
here and now in a couple of days ago in Austria.
So what have you done to change and how tough
have the last four years been for you not getting
a victory under the belt.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, for sure. I think I had a cutoue quite
challenging years where I had a lot of crashes. It
kind of it was during like the COVID times. I
found really tough being so young and so far away
from home and then getting COVID and missing big events
and crashing a bit, and it was a bit of
a mess. And then I changed equipment and it took
me a year to kind of get that organized. And
(03:25):
then last the last season, this like last year and
this season have both been really good. Last year, I
was just second a lot, so I was in you know,
spots to be winning races, but I missed the book
and wins by like one one hundreds one time and
then by a couple of tenths another time, So it
was still good. I was still in really good form
(03:45):
last year and it was just nice to that the
hundreds went my way and I got a wed this
year and hopefully we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Next on that. Changed to the equipment hat trick is
it to adjust to new equipment when you've become so
adapted to to one style and then going into new
equipment For leg people out there, just to explain for
us how tricky it is to get used to new
equipments on the slopes.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, so I switched to Solomon two years ago, and
it's definitely it's a huge adjustment. I mean, equipment's very
important and skew racing, and sometimes you can switch and
things work straight away, and then other times it takes
a process to you have to do a lot of testing,
a lot of trial and error with getting the equipment sorted.
So it did take me a bit of time to
(04:34):
get it sorted in it but now I'm like, have
it dialed in and it's good. But it's a big
process because it's, Yeah, you're changing pretty much everything, and
the brand that I've spot was using before I'd used
my whole life. So it was definitely a bit of adjustment,
just learning what works and trying out everything. But then
it's worked out for the best.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Now you're posting some great results. As we've discussed in
the Giant slalom, you obviously compete in the Super G
as well. Where are you at and that discipline and
is it fear to say that the Giant Slalom is
the favorite of the two disciplines.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah. GS is where I've had pretty much all my
success success and so it's for sure my favorite. It's
more technical than Super G and it's where I've had
all my podiums and wins. And Super G and downhill
a bit more speed events and SUPERG. I've been kind
of chipping away at it for the last few years,
and I'd like to take that next step and be
(05:28):
on the podium. I just have been putting a bit
more focus on GS, but my goal is to be
as competitive in super G as I am in GS,
and I'm still working towards it and doing all the
World Cups and just trying to get better at that too.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Que Alpine scare Alice Robinson with US on Week in
Sport this afternoon on News Talk ZB. Alisa, obviously you've
detailed the difference is there, But does the confidence of
the good results in Giant slalom give you a little
bit more confidence as you head into the Super G
events now that you've got some podiums in the other discipline, Yeah,
(06:03):
for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I mean they're they're very different, but there's i mean
they're still on skis and you're still making turns, so
it's different, but it's you definitely can carry the confidence
from GS over into that and it's I really enjoy
doing the speed events and then downhill again is another
event that I'm trying to come and chick away it
as well, but it's even higher speed. So for sure
(06:23):
confidence from GS translates over. But there's still a lot
of technical and tactical elements of super gene downhill, which
are quite different to GS.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You mentioned the season continues after the World Championship, So
what does the next few months look like for Alice
Robinson on the slopes.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, the next like five six weeks are pretty crazy.
We get pretty much straight back into it this week.
This coming week we've got to Giant Solm World Cups
in Italy on Friday and Saturday, so that's quite a
big weekend. And then we've got pretty much We've got
speed races and Norway, then another GS race in Sweden,
(07:02):
then back to Italy for another speed race, and then
finally at the end of March, we have the World
Cup finals in Sun Valley in the US, so heading
back over there and then we're wrapped up at the
end of March. But yeah, every weekend now till the
end of March has got a World Cup event. Tom
solo doesn't really stop.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We're under a year now from the Olympic Games, the
Winter Olympics in twenty twenty six in Milan, Courtina. In fact,
they'll be on this time in a year exactly. So
to the recent run of results give you some confidence,
I mean a long way out of course, but as
you eye that way down the track that you know
you're on the right track, so to speak. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I mean I'm just taking every race break by race
and not thinking too much about Cortina and the Olympics
as yet, but for sure it's always the back of
my mind, and they're definitely starting to get a bit
more talk about it coming up. But yeah, still a
lot to do before then, so you can start worrying
about those results next year.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, going to plan Alis, this will be your third
Olympic Games next year, after visits in twenty eighteen and
twenty twenty two. Will you use you know, ideas of
how you win at those games and how you prepared
for those games. Will you put that into your preparation
of how you get ready for next year's Olympic Games.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I think I'll probably just be doing more of the
same of what I've been doing these last couple of years,
and we have like a World Cup schedule that we
do every year, and for me at the Olympics next year,
I'm not going to treat it any differently to another
World Cup race. So I'm just going to be doing
more of the same. It's going to be easy. It's
in a venue that I've been to plenty of times,
and I know the area really well and I know
the slope, so I'm just going to be taking it.
(08:41):
It's just another race. And then it's just special that
you get to have the Olympic rings and you get
to represent New Zealand, but for me, the preparation is
going to be the same.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Fantastic. Well, we look forward to the Olympics and your
competition in there, but for the time being, we look
forward to hearing about and seeing your results on the
slopes in the coming weeks for the rest of your season.
Alis Robinson, thank you very much for your time here
on News Talk ZB this afternoon. Thank you see seeyep,
that's Alice Robinson joining us on Weekend Sport this afternoon.
(09:10):
Here we Alpine Scare and you're finding some real form
at the moment, which is fantastic. I know. She's, as
she mentioned there, sort of had a few ups and
downs in the last few years and burst onto the scene.
Had struggled for a bit around COVID. Great to see
her back and competing well for New Zealand and you
look a year a here a sole ahead. Some of
(09:30):
those names Zoe Sadowski, Sint Nico Portius, Alice Robinson, Luca
Harrington's been doing some great stuff as well, and there
are probably a couple of others that I'm neglecting to mention.
It seems a long time ago since New Zealand had
that one solitary Winter Olympics middle and you know with
(09:51):
Analie Coberger in the nineties, great success in twenty eighteen,
twenty twenty two, better again. What my twenty twenty six
bring Milan Quartine I think starts around the sixth of
February next year. Fascinating See how our key which snow
athletes go. It's a boon time for the sport that
is for short.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine. Listen live
to news talks at b weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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