Scott Kneller

Stuck in Denver at the moment, watching our flight get delayed further and further as the snow and fog outside seems to be dictating the schedule of the airport. The trip to Europe has not started well. Our original departure from Calgary yesterday was delayed to this morning due to snow and United being the premiere airline that it is has managed to lose some of our bags between Calgary and Denver. My status on United, however has been upgraded which means lounges in between flights but when the hostesses are as old as the airline I have very few good things to say about United.

The delay in Calgary wasn’t all bad though, through a friend of Jenny’s we were given tickets to the Canadian National Bull Riding Tournament, and enjoyed the view from a private box.

The training in Calgary went really well, I did a lot of free skiing in Lake Louise and a few days of alpine training at Nakiska.

We also went and saw the Men’s Super G at Lake Louise and cheered on fellow Australian Craig Branch, who was coming off a top 30 result in the Downhill the previous day, unfortunately he didn’t finish the Super G though.

Until the first World Cup we will be situated in Lienz, Austria. There isn’t much snow in Europe at the moment so training will be on the glacier. There is a track and start gate set up so should lend itself to some good training in preparation for the first World Cup in San Candido in about two weeks time.