Pure stress for Zurich ski ace
Gilles Roulin between Lauberhorn races and law exams
First the Lauberhorn races, then the law exams: Gilles Roulin from Zurich will not be bored in the next few days.
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Cramming, training, cramming, training: Gilles Roulin has a lot on his plate at the moment.
Marcel W. Perrenreporter sports
Gilles Roulin is in the middle of the busiest week of his life. After the training on the longest descent in the world, the Zurich Oberlander has hardly any time to catch his breath, because the oral final exam for his distance learning law course is on the program on Sunday.
However, the 28-year-old attaches great importance to the fact that he is putting sport ahead of his professional future these days. “I’ll do anything for the Laubernhorn race. For the exam, I just do what doesn’t affect my performance for the competition.”
Cradle, train, cradle, train
Roulin describes a daily routine during this very special Lauberhorn week: “If training is not scheduled for 1 p.m., as it was on Tuesday, I already cram in for an hour and a half in the morning for the exam. When I get back to the hotel after training, I sit in front of the computer again for an hour and a half. Then I do my fitness training for an hour. Then there is time for exam preparation until dinner.”
Roulin proved that he can masterfully deal with this double burden in the old year’s week in Bormio on what is probably the toughest descent of the winter. With starting number 35, he placed eighth on the “Stelvio”. The man from Grüningen, who competes for the Lenzerheide ski club, has also made it into the top 30 in the start list. “And in Wengen, a front start number is particularly important,” emphasizes Roulin.
Also fast on a soft surface?
But something worries him: “In Bormio I received confirmation that I can be really fast even on an extremely hard surface. So far, however, there has been no sense of achievement in soft conditions, and in Wengen it is very soft in sections. But maybe the conditions will change by Saturday.”
But it could also be that the slalom will be brought forward to Saturday due to the weather forecast and the downhill will only start on Sunday. What consequences would that have for Roulin’s final law exam? “In that case, I could also postpone the exam. I would then answer the professor’s questions about estate planning online as best as I could on Saturday.”
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