Carlo Janka postpones marriage until 2021 due to ... pandemic: "It won't be a normal winter"

The Swiss downhill racer, interviewed by "Blick", explained the choice made with his partner Jenny and how he managed to return to high levels.

Thursday 2 July 2020 3 minutes reading time

Two podiums in the last World Cup season, with a sprint start in Lake Louise that surprised everyone. Carlo Janka is still there at the age of 33 and he has every intention of showing it also in the 2020/21 vintage, trying to find that success that he misses from the pre-Olympic of Jeongseon, when in February 2016 he dominated the super- g on Korean snows. The 2010 Vancouver Olympian (in giant) and the last Swiss to win the World Cup, was told on the columns of the "Blick", revealing that the expected wedding with his partner Jenny, scheduled for next July 11, has been postponed to 2021. "Due to the restrictions related to the pandemic we could not have made it as planned, so we decided to get married in a year," explained Janka who, next spring, will move with the family (the couple has a 9-month-old daughter) in the new house, always in his Obersaxen, the heart of the Canton of Grisons. A Carlo Janka who has almost completely solved the serious back problems of the past years and has also implemented a decidedly important diet: “To detoxify my body, I gave up meat and animal proteins for about six weeks - his story - I lost eight kilograms in that phase and, by training again to the maximum, I recovered half of it, to return to my weight in the second part of the preparation ". The Swiss said "worried about the next season, because I think we will not live a normal winter. I hope that the FIS will find an alternative formula to be able to compete and ensure that all training is not useless. There is this risk. "

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