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Arianna Tricomi Interview
When you feel that a change is necessary, you must be willing to change, follow your instinct and courageously let yourself go. This is what Arianna Tricomi, Free Ride World Tour champion for the second year in a row, has done throughout her life.
Tell me southing about you.
Honestly, I’m still getting to know myself, but I grew up in Corvara in Badia in the Dolomites surrounded by nature and beautiful people. I have been skiing my whole life and I still enjoy it as if it were the first day. More or less five years ago I moved to Austria where I graduated in physiotherapy and I currently live there.
When was your passion for the mountain born?
My passion was born in a very natural way, transmitted by my mother who is a passionate skier. She was in the World Cup and took part in the Olympics in the downhill discipline. My mom introduced me to every aspect of skiing and the mountains and has always left me free to find my way.
What is your evolution as a skier?
I started skiing with my mother when I was 3. At 6 I started telemark and alpine skiing competitions. I competed for ten years with good results but that world was becoming too strict for me, so after a few years I found the courage to stop. I got into slopestyle-freestyle, a discipline that has always fascinated me. Those years have been very funny and I had some unbelievable failures too but I laughed a lot. With the arrival of the FIS, everything again lost its charm and freedom. I left again and spent a rather dark period of my life because I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do and I felt lost. So I decided to study physiotherapy in Austria and enrolled in freeride competitions with the excuse of having some days off my classes; in the end, within two years I found myself on the Freeride World Tour circuit.
Between the various skiing disciplines, what of freeriding attracts you the most?
I am very fascinated by the fact that everyone is free to be an artist and that everyone has the opportunity to draw their own line coming down from a mountain, and there is no beautiful or ugly, there are simply different styles and different interpretations.
How did you feel when you won for the second year in a row?
It was exciting arriving at the finish line and knowing that I had made a good line. I arrived at the bottom and I saw Elisabeth in the first position, which made me very happy because coming back from Andorra together we had “dreamed” that she would win at Verbier and that I would get second place winning the title… And so it was! It is strange when you realize that you are a world champion because it is such an abstract thing that it always takes you some days to really understand it. It was wonderful and we started celebrating from 10 am.
What do you think when you’re facing a descent in the race?
I don’t think about anything and that’s the good thing. From the moment I leave the start line there is no more room to think, we live only in the moment and it is a very intense, beautiful feeling that makes you feel alive.
What would you like to say to all the girls who take you and follow you as a model?
Just have fun because it is the most important thing. Embrace everything of the mountains and of skiing/snowboarding, go on the slope, in the park and when conditions allow it, venture a little further, but the important thing is to always be patient and wait for the right moment, which will surely come. We must respect the mountain thoroughly because unfortunately she does not forgive and remains the undisputed queen. Don’t be ashamed, try, fall and get up but always with a smile!
Do you have other passions during your free time?
I’ve got many. I started enjoying cycling (enduro) a few years ago and at the moment it is one of my greatest passions.
I walk a lot in the mountains, sometimes I go climbing and then surfing when I have time. I also like music a lot, I love animals, traveling and eating well.
What do you think about social media?I think it’s a very delicate subject. If I could, I would use them less, it’s a world so fake and I think it makes people sad because you always have the impression of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and that other people have a better day than yours. We must maintain a correct distance and not forget about the REAL life.
Tell me southing about you nobody knows!
For many years when I was little I wanted to become a marine biologist and I wanted to live with fish in the ocean. The Little Mermaid was my favorite cartoon.
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