Lydia Lassila heads to her fifth Olympics as a favourite to become Australia’s most successful winter Olympian.
The Australian aerial team appeared refreshed and in good spirits, cracking jokes at a press conference in PyeongChang this morning. The team arrived yesterday from a training camp in Ruka, Finland and will rest up before training this weekend on the Olympic aerial course.
David Morris, the team larrikin, revealed his relief at landing his first quintuple twist triple flip during training and is ready to pull it out when needed to make the podium at PyeongChang next week. The difficult jump is thirteen years in the making for Morris.
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Lassila will have her eldest son, six year old Kai, in the stands cheering on his mum for her fifth Olympics. The gold and bronze Olympic medal winner will become Australia’s most successful winter Olympian should she podium at the PyeongChang games.
Danielle Scott became the first Australian to land a quad twisting double on snow in training this season. But both her and Lydia have landed that since.
“I will definitely take advantage of that if I get the opportunity to” revealed Scott of her aerial strategy for the Games.
Laura Peel is happy to be in Korea and expecting her family to arrive soon and Samantha Wells laughed about being considered “the fun one” amongst the high calibre of fellow athletes on the panel.
