PRAGUE:

Like in Beijing in 2022, three-time Olympic champion calls next year's Olympic Games "a friendly" to ease the pressure, despite a rather unfriendly schedule thwarting her medal hopes.

The 30-year-old Czech stunned the world by winning both the skiing super-G and the snowboarding parallel giant slalom at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang.

She won another Olympic snowboarding parallel giant slalom at Beijing in 2022, and took the bronze medal in downhill at the 2024 Alpine skiing world championships.

But a schedule clash at next year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics prevents her from competing in these two events.

"I'm just sad that we won't get the chance," Ledecka told reporters in Prague.

"I don't know how long I'll be able to compete and maybe this will be the last chance to do

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