After two weeks training with the team it was time for things to get serious! The slopes have filled up with more Disabled athletes sit skiers, Amputees leg and arm and many more! Causing many curious questions and raising a lot of eyes. As would be expected when a three tracker or someone with no arms comes flying past you warming up!
The first two days we got two runs a day on the course training for the downhill. Despite my times improving with every run I was still off the mark compared too those with more downhill experience.
Well you already know the result of the first downhill race coming 6th losing to Talan and most my hair! The second run was an improvement. And despite only a couple of seconds separating the leading 6, for me it was still as disappointment.
The next day I was relieved to be off the downhill course having fun it for the past few days and pleased to move on to the super G and hoped for a more technical course to suit me.
The results were again better as I attacked the course more aggressively. And was kept out of the medals by Canada’s Josh Dueck by only two hundreds of a second. Although I was still disappointed to leaving Kimberley with only a Mohawk! I can only take heart out of the fact in real time I would have been on the podium every time.
