Speed Skiing 100+ mph recovery, 1992 Albertville Olympics

This video is of my loss of control and recovery in the Speed Skiing event in the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France. The speed was about 170 km/h at the point in the course where the problem occured. The right ski drifted out, and I thought the initial ski strike had broken my leg. When I pulled the ski in the leg worked so I kept fighting the wind and momentum to avoid a (probably very bad) crash...but the race "cut" run was ruined and I was forced to console myself with the rest of the festivities in Albertville.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Speed
• Skiing
• Recovery
• Olympics
• Hards
• Crash
• Canadian
• Albertville
• 1992
• Daredevil
• Race
• Racing

[NickPatrick2]

You managed to save yourself you had great skill, remember in that Olympic Games a colleague died on a severe crash against a machine!

[ryanpiuma]

That save is worthy of a gold metal.

[jjpp23]

HOLY SH#$!!!!!!!!

[jimbob615]

thats crazy :)