Get to know....Jean Louis Arnould!

• Since when do you practice the sport of Nordic Combined?

• Since I am 9 years old.

• How come that you choose Nordic Combined as your sport?

• When I was little, not very far from where I lived, every year there was Trinity Sunday festival where you could try out ski jumping on a little mobile jumping hill. It was there, where I found my passion for ski jumping!

• How did you prepare yourself for the season 2009/2010?

• Like all the other summers and during autumn, I did a lot more intensity.

• Your objectives for the season 2009/2010?

• The Junior World Championships – they are not an objectives speaking of a specific place, but I want to show my best level of performance during the competitions there!

• Your favourite jumping hill?

• Oberstdorf (K120)

• Your favourite skiing track?

• Seefeld

• Your longest jump?

• 135 m

• Your best competition?

• Oberstdorf  (OPA in summer), two years ago.

• Your objectives in the sport (of your career)?

• Get regularly in the top 10 in the World Cup, going to Olympic Winter Games and why not also winning a medal!!!

• Ta “devise“?

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• Your hobbies?

• Cycling, reading, watching movies, Alpine skiing…

• Your favourite meal?

• Croque monsieur

• Your favourite drink?

• Coca-Cola

• Your favourite book?

• Les chroniques de Krondor (The Riftwar Saga)

• Your favourite movie?

• OSS 117

• What kind of music would we find on your ipod?

• American Rap

• What do you want to do after your sports career?

• I would like to become a ski jumping coach.