You’ve always got to keep up with where your sport is headed and I can’t help taking a look at other nations on the World Cup circuit – that’s the place where the benchmark gets raised each year . It’s great to see Japan back on the map as a W.C. stop this coming season. [...]
After being away training for the past 4 months, it’s good to be back home with my family and friends! Being a full-time athlete may sound like the ideal lifestyle, jet setting around the world, but it’s nothing like a ski holiday – which is what most people relate to when I tell them what [...]
Training throughout August in Australia has been fantastic this year. Have been away from home for 4 months working hard on the snow and I am looking forward to a good rest back in the UK in September !
Pretty much as soon as the ski race season is over (end of March time), work starts on next seasons ‘competition product’. The cool thing about being a freestyle skier is that the game is always advancing, adapting and moving on to the next level of technical difficulty. Just as you close the gap and [...]
Pretty much everyone on the FIS Moguls World Cup circuit has a series of summer jump camps training on a gymnastics spec trampoline and then taking their ’airs’ to a water ramp. For me I have been based in Steamboat, Colorado with my aerials coach Chris, jumping on the fantastic tramp and ramp facility here . The ramp has a laser beam device [...]
We take a ‘behind the scenes’ look at the top 8 travel tips that British Olympic moguls skier Ellie Koyander, believes to be essential whilst travelling around the world year round following the snow as she trains and compete in her sport. Last season she travelled throughout America, Canada, France, Finland, Australia, Sweden and the [...]
Spring skiing is like no other time of year . Being up in the mountains is just beautiful! The weather is warm, wild animals start to come out , and the views are just spectacular. It’s the perfect ‘feel good’ training environment to be in. I have been skiing up at A – Basin Colorado [...]
Vancouver airport is bustling with people arriving for the Olympics. My coach Pat and I are met by the amazing support staff at Team GB and we are quickly transported to the British quarters of the Athlete Village in downtown Vancouver. The city is just alive with Olympic fever. When we arrive it’s clear that [...]
LATEST UPDATE: Watch Ellie’s run on BBC Sport (UK Only): http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/vancouver_2010/freestyle_skiing/8514729.stm Vancouver, February 14th 2010 – for immediate info: The women’s Olympic moguls event at Cypress Mountain ran despite fears of cancellation due to extraordinarily poor weather conditions. Competitors and spectators were besieged by strong winds and relentless rain that ran from start to finish. [...]
Ellie will be one of the first Team GB athletes to compete in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. She races in the Women’s Freestyle Mogul Event at 4.30pm PST (GMT -8hrs) on Saturday 13th February. The Event takes place on Cypress Mountain, overlooking downtown Vancouver. Despite reports of a lack of snow Ellie has said [...]