Both athletes said in an interview on Tuesday that they want to achieve their best runs, which would make them happy, while at the same time realising that in a technical discipline, success can be separated from failure by a mere hair's breadth.

After the Olympic opening ceremony, where Ģērmane carried the Latvian flag, her main training base was a two-hour drive from Cortina. Therefore, the athlete hopes that the proximity to the Olympic mountain provided similar training conditi...