We planned to do 3 slides, 7/9 of us were sliding. Half of the group went down and then Ellie went off. Within a 10m she had rotated 180 degrees on her sled and was going feet first, face down into corner 4!!!! *^%#?!! Somehow she got off. What could have happened if she hadn't isn't really worth thinking about. At the same time we heard the Liv was throwing up at the bottom having been concussed at some point during the run. So not great. There were three of us left and we got down ok. I actually had a good slide and was really pleased until I twatted my ankle (the same one from yesterday) in the outrun. Unable to bear weight Chloe got my sled down and I hobbled off. I found Liv who was looking very pale and ill bless her. A bit later I found out that I hit 100kph out of 13. May explain my erratic exit and ankle hit! Pretty pleased with that speed though, I think I am the first of the group to hit 100kph!
Shortly after that the session got called off as Liv needed to go to hospital. It made no difference to me as I wasn't going again on my ankle anyway. Safe to say the session had gone wildly off plan. But I guess that is what happens in skeleton. I mean in what other sport do you go straight in on an Olympic standard track/course? And once you get let go off the top all you can do is use the information you've been given to the best of your ability. Mistakes and accidents happen. So we've all had a bit of a reality check today. Liv won't be sliding for a while, and Hannah has a broken bone in her hand from yesterday, so we are down to 7 for a while at least.
On a lighter note we've still managed to have some funny times today. And we've all pulled together as a team; staff and athletes.
Today's moment was provided by Alice who stepped up to drive as our drivers had taken the girls to the hospital. Having not driven abroad or in snow before we didn't know what to expect. We certainly couldn't have predicted what happened next. After several stalls and some very odd jerking back and forward plus stress and confusion she realised she had been using the brake as the accelerator?!? We'd managed to get up a hill of snow with her touching the actual accelerator!? We were obviously in hysterics but we needed a light moment after the mornings dramas.
This eve we've watched Pitch perfect, talked about forming a girl band, had a look at Norweigan tinder (which provided the QOTD 'I like cat') and consumed a lot of chocolate and tea. Safe to say we've recuperated somewhat.
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