When she was 13, Eliassen moved to Lillehammer, Norway. She decided to continue her skiing career there. Soon thereafter, she was selected to join the Norwegian Ski Team. She was on the team for two seasons. Eliassen realized that racing was not the type of skiing that satisfied her and soon after she fell in love with freeskiing.
She captures back to back gold medals at the Winter X Games. In addition, she also won two silver and two bronze medals at the Winter X Games. She is the only female skier to medal in both the first Halfpipe and Slopestyle X Games events. How are you doing now? I was on crutches for eight weeks and lost all my muscle mass. It was my first injury and my first surgery. I had no idea how long it would take. I've learned a lot about strength training and recovery. This was a recovery year. I was skiing, but I would ski until something was hurt and I would stop.
I wanted to get back to the basics, since last year was a total loss. So just hitting a jump or going into a halfpipe again was huge for me. I jumped a lot, but I didn't compete as much because I didn't feel quite ready.
I won the qualifier and I was blown away. I realized the recovery worked. When I hit the first jump here in Aspen, it felt so awesome. Landing on both your feet is a great feeling. You kind of forget everything you've been through. Now I'm back and I'm as hungry as ever. I'm doing the skiing I want to do and not just listening to people who say I need to be in the park. I still want to powder ski. That's where my heart is. What are your plans for next season? The Olympics are the big show.
There will be a couple qualifiers in the beginning where they'll pick the team from how you do in the first World Cups. Because it's all under the umbrella of freestyle skiing, which includes aerials, moguls, halfpipe and slopestyle skiing, the U.
We are actually competing against people in different sports. That's new. I'm just along for the ride. Hopefully I'll get a good perspective and make sure skiing stays the way we want it.
What's on tap this summer? I'm graduating from college on May 3 from the University of Utah. I'm getting married on June 1. She competed on the Norwegian Ski Team for two years until she realized her love for skiing was not skiing around gates, but the freedom she found while going off jumps, skiing off cliffs and finding her own line down the mountain.
Grete quickly gained sponsors at the age of 16 and won her first international competition in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Grete quickly understood the injustices that were given to her and her fellow female competitors. They would have to lobby to be included in freeskiing events, ski in demos years before they were actually awarded a medal or even prize money to prove that women could ski in the halfpipe and go off jumps.
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