(CNN)You're a downhill racing champion and an extreme skiing movie star, so how do you cope with a season out injured?
Head to Silicon Valley, of course. Well, you do if you are Aksel Lund Svindal.
The former Olympic champion tore his Achilles playing soccer in October 2014 and missed the whole of the following World Cup season.
But the driven Norwegian is not one for sitting about.
"In any situation that's a bad situation, you want to try to flip it into something positive, right?" the 33-year-old tells CNN's Alpine Edge show.
His first thought was to accomplish one of his life goals and go to college. The dates didn't work out, so he picked plan B.
"I was like, 'What's the second-smartest thing I can do?' The most inspiring, I figured, would be to go somewhere where you meet fun and inspiring people, where people are really good and enthusiastic about something else than sports," he adds.
(CNN)You're a downhill racing champion and an extreme skiing movie star, so how do you cope with a season out injured?
"In any situation that's a bad situation, you want to try to flip it into something positive, right?" the 33-year-old tells CNN's Alpine Edge show.
His first thought was to accomplish one of his life goals and go to college. The dates didn't work out, so he picked plan B.
"I was like, 'What's the second-smartest thing I can do?' The most inspiring, I figured, would be to go somewhere where you meet fun and inspiring people, where people are really good and enthusiastic about something else than sports," he adds.
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