I believe that we shape our own destiny... but how’s this for some cosmic witchcraft? 7 years ago to the day, I had my first world cup podium shared with tinamaze83 and of course marlies_raich. Today I took over the slalom win record held by Marlies. I have said it many times already that I am not one for all the statistics or chasing records, but this one is pretty crazy. I wasn’t trying to break this record, honestly I never even did the math to know that it was possible. For me, Marlies held this record, and that was that. She won it. She deserved it. I could never hold that place. I wouldn’t be able to do it justice. My whole career, my only real goal is to put my highest level of skiing out every time I race, and to push the sport to new limits. That is what Marlies did, and that is what she inspired me to do. So I can’t sit here and say that I think am the best slalom skier, because I don’t. Without Marlies, I would not be where I am now. And that’s the point-those who want to se...