The objective is to build a circuit for the youth and children. The youngsters were competing
with the grownups and this is not fair for them. This is why we started the Youth Snow
Circuit.
I learned in the camps that I can be friends with the other skiers, but they are my enemies
too.
My favourite thing about the Youth Snow Circuit is the competition because then you are the
rival of everyone and you want to be the best.
I think I learned to respect and learned to lose. Because I never think that I can beat
Niels. Now I know I can beat him, and now I try to do this again.
The three best are Bjoern, Niels and I. So, we're going to battle for the first place.
The young talent and work with the youth is extremely important, because they are the
athletes who will compete in future Paralympics, and will be the role models beyond that.
We want to try to get the youth into Paralympic sports in 2018 and 2022 for the Paralympics,
so we've got a whole programme from beginning during the national section.
Being in Sochi inspires me a lot because one day I want to be at the Paralympic Games competing
myself.
I want to be there also in the future.
I want to be a Paralympic champion.
My ambition is to compete at the Paralympic Games in 2018.
Paralympics 2018 in PyeongChang, but first the qualification for European and World Cup
races.
You have to train really hard and be positive of course.
By working on an international level, we can learn a lot together and from each other.
Back then, I really gained a lot, and now I can give something back. And I hope that
the kids can identify with me, and that they can learn from me and that I can motivate
them a bit.
It's really funny!
The educational and cultural workshops are key. They need to understand why they are
doing this, why they are classified, why we have rules.
The educational workshops are very interesting. They are about doping or media, and I really
like it.
Doping isn't fair.
By moving, they learn what capacities they have to be the owners of their own life in
the future, to realise that they can do anything that they want.
It's like, you're in a wheelchair, but you can do the same as the walkers. It's cool.
I love skiing and I want to be a really, really, really good skier. And I'm going to do everything
for it.
Now I can say that I have friends from Germany and the Netherlands and I like it.