Brita Sigourney glad to be back in action, feeling 120 percent fit
American freestyle skier Brita Sigourney has let her performance at the recently concluded Dew Tour’s Ion Mountain Championships let everyone know that she is 100 percent fit and aiming for gold at the upcoming Winter X Games.
In a recent interview with ESPN following her victory at the women’s half-pipe competition at Dew Tour’s Ion Mountain Championships and second consecutive Dew Cup championship title, the 22-year-old freeskier said that she is feeling great and relaxed now
that she has registered her first victory of the year.
She said that the recent success will come as a proof to her sponsors that she is ready to compete against the best for top honours and at the same time build her own confidence as she continues the season.
The torn ACL knee injury that sidelined Sigourney from the European version of Winter X Games last March had come as a huge disappointment to her, not to mention her fans and sponsors, who had been hoping to see her perform at one of the greatest stages
in action sports.
Not wanting to keep her fans waiting for too long, the American freeskier had put a lot of effort in recovering from the injury and regaining 100 percent fitness to make her comeback to the freeskiing competitions.
“I was in the gym all summer, all fall, and all last spring, building my knee back to full strength. My goal was to get back to 100 percent, but honestly I'd probably say my overall strength right now is more like 120 percent what it was before the injury,”
she told ESPN.
Not currently thinking about the 2014 Winter Olympics, where half-pipe will be making its debut, Sigourney is trying to remain focused on the current season and picking up from where she had left off after sustaining the knee injury.
The focused approach has been working well for her so far. However, she acknowledged the fact that the level of competition has surely risen in the last year or two and therefore she herself is concentrating on the technicality to make her tricks bigger
and better.
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