Every day makes you question yourself, doubt yourself.
You're all alone at the start, all alone with your thoughts.
To give everything you've got, you need to have a plan.
It's an emotional rollercoaster every day.
But emotions make you stronger not weaker.
I never feel like giving up.
We know that we'll always come out of it stronger.
We're in Crans-Montana.
I always approach this race in a specific way.
It's where I achieved my best ever World Cup result.
I achieved my first ever top 10 here.
But it's also where I suffered an injury.
I had to stop skiing for more than three months.
So that was a lot to take.
I've really got my heart set on implementing
all the training I've been doing.
Physical preparation is very important
for skiers like us because the season is long.
You have to focus on strength,
as skiing is tough and you need power.
And now, one set of two reps.
Two reps.
-Full blast? -Yes, full blast.
For me personally, my knee issues have proved
that you and your body need to be fit and feel good.
If we go for big results, for some of us,
for the top results, we have to go all in.
When we go all in, we can't make mistakes.
It's part of the game.
Never ski to not make mistakes.
That's a mindset that absolutely doesn't work.
We are the French team, and tomorrow we are Les Bleues.
I press a button and change my mindset
when I get to each race.
The only thing that I know in these moments
is that I want to give it my all and that's it.
Are you hearing what the girls are doing, time-wise?
No.
We can tell if you like.
Yeah, I'd quite like to know.
Come on Tiff.
The way you know how, with passion.
It's just you who has to decide
and think how to give it your all.
I think I made a few rubbish mistakes.
Did you? You were eight tenths adrift
on the upper section, weren't you?
I almost fell flat on my face at the first gate.
Didn't you see?
I caught the edge, so when I dropped
I was completely off course,
so I think I made a kind of skating step
at the second gate.
So I thought, "Okay, off to a great start."
The run definitely had some positives for Tiff.
But she placed 19th as she made some mistakes.
What should motivate Tiff is not what she didn't achieve
but what she has at the moment,
which is a great trust in her skiing.
I share my room with Laura.
We ended up with one or two days in Canada
without any races.
No!
She's my good friend,
someone that I like sharing these moments with.
We like having a laugh.
Sometimes, when things aren't going well,
she's there with me.
I try to be there for her too.
She's my rock.
It's not Tiff's go, it's Clem's go.
I've messed up.
No.
Don’t worry.
Meeting up with the team and the new younger athletes
helps to shift your mindset and it does you good.
What an emotional rollercoaster!
Skiing is an individual sport,
but we are wild beasts who live in a pack.
Therefore, it's definitely less of a burden
being able to live the off-race situations
with a team spirit that can help through
the tough times of the season.
-Okay, I'll let you know then. -Yes.
Take care, thank you.
Tomorrow it will be two weeks since I had surgery.
-Good morning, Romane. -Hello, how are you doing?
-Yes, good thanks, and you? -It's going well.
How have you been getting on?
I think that I've mentally accepted it now.
My recovery is on track
and I've already been able to have a few physio sessions
and we are assessing the progress I've made
from one session to another.
Actually, I've been feeling better for two days
after I wake up.
It's less stiff.
Does it stop you from sleeping at night?
No, I slept well last night.
My aim is both for the swelling in my knee to ease
as much as possible so that it becomes more and more mobile
and for myself, not to overdo it.
There are a lot of injuries in this sport.
It's part of the game, we know it’s part of our sport.
It can happen at any time
but we also know that we're in good hands.
If we show the right desire,
we'll be back as strong as before, if not stronger.
The truth is that, over the past ten years,
I've shaped myself to become the person that I am today.
To have lost Theo in 2016,
it was a massive shock.
It's not a physical injury, you can't quantify it
and it's not always easy to manage.
It's a wound that remained open for a very long time,
and then little by little, it slowly closed up.
I say that I live with it, but I actually live without it.
These days, I'd like to think that it helps me
in difficult situations to put things into perspective.
I carry him in my heart and I know that
there's a shining star following me every day
and that he's never too far away in difficult moments.
Am I going to unload everything, then?
What did you say?
I'm going to unload everything, yes?
Yes, you are.
Okay, thank you.
Today, we're in La Clusaz in the Aravis mountains.
I'm about to do a Giant Slalom training session.
My schedule for January is very busy.
Should I warm up through the gates or on another slope?
You can do it along the side, on this course.
Sure.
I'm removing little rocks.
Apart from that, the snow is excellent.
These last races before the World Championships
have a bit more riding on them.
They're the last races where you can gain some confidence
or a good result.
Come on! Tessa on the slope.
I'm determined to commit myself completely
because I've often had disappointing races simply
because doubt managed to creep in.
So during my races I just want to give
100 percent and go for it.
It's purely a matter of commitment,
it's not because I can't do it, it makes me angry.
It makes you angry?
I show good things in training on a regular basis.
It's in competitions that I need to switch
into this mode.
Make sure to take the turn well around
the first gate of the banana turn,
make sure to take it early though.
When I won at the World Championships,
it was an unforgettable experience.
I had to fight until the end, I had to resist the pressure.
The emotions that day were just incredible.
I'm still hungry. My aim is to win again.
The idea is to keep gathering momentum.
I have to do my COVID PCR test like this.
My aim is to give it my all.
A superb last turn from Tessa Worley.
Here she comes! She's done it again!
It's a victory for Tessa Worley once more.
She wins another World Cup.