Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, open-hearted emotions after the darkest period

Almost seven hundred days after the dramatic accident in Wengen on January 13, 2024, when a ruinous fall on the downhill in Wengen gave him serious injuries to his right leg tending to force him into a wheelchair for a time, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has officially returned to compete in the Alpine Ski World Cup, at Copper Mountain, in Super-G.

The 2020 CdM winner did not want to hide his excitement and in a video posted on his Instagram profile addressed his supporters directly: “Finally the big day is here – said the Norwegian -. I have been waiting and working so hard, I have been preparing myself as best as I can to return to competition”.

Kilde went on to say that he did not want to be an extra: “I am ready and focused, I want to exceed my limits– he said. “It has been almost two years, it feels like an eternity. I always rejected the idea of giving up, fortunately that dark period is over. I fought to be here, I can&#8217t wait to compete”.

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, born in 1992, has won not only the overall World Cup in 2020, but also the super-giant slalom in 2016 and 2022 and the downhill in 2022 and 2023. He has 21 career CdM victories: the first in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen downhill in January 2016, the’last in Aspen, also in downhill, in March 2023.