Ted Ligety

Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

Actually, after the Olympics in 2006, it was right after I won my first gold medal, I'd never won a World Cup race before that, we flew to Korea a couple days after the Olympics,

You know, I got my own room because I won the Olympics.

It was like my first time ever rooming by myself.

And I slept through the first race there.

And, you know, I got woken up by my physio and a security guard, like thinking that something happened to me.

And then the next day I won my first World Cup.

So maybe I needed that extra bit of rest and was going on the special muscle memory there.

Yeah, I slept through the race.

I woke up at noon.

The race had already happened.

And then the next day, luckily there's two races in Korea at that time, and I won the next one.

That was my first World Cup victory.

Well, this is a World Cup race, so the race after the Olympics.

But World Cup races are the same level of competition as the Olympics.

Oh, I was pretty pissed at both myself, but also our hotel was the bottom of the mountain.

So, you know, at seven o'clock in the morning when I didn't show up for breakfast and at eight o'clock in the morning when I wasn't there for warm up and nine o'clock in the morning when I wasn't there for inspection, there's a lot of like touch points that somebody should have realized that I hadn't shown up yet instead of noon after the race is already done.

No, I went to lunch after the race was over and I had just woken up so it was my breakfast and people had just heard what happened to me and they're just giggling at me.

You don't check it.

What's funny is you put in your carry-on, and it looks pretty funny in an x-ray machine.