Zoe Gillings X- Games Injury
Britains Zoe Gilling's was forced to retire early from the X-Games competition earlier today after a painful injury she recieved yesterday in qualifying.
Zoe qualified in an excellent 3rd place but on her second qualifying run sustained a painful compression injury to her right foot which put her participation in todays finals in severe doubt.
Despite suffering excrutiating pain, Zoe only decided to compete in the finals after completing one training run this morning. In normal circumstances Zoe would complete 5 or 6 training runs on the course to ensure she had the best possible chance of winning and fully understanding the course.
Zoe tentatively went into the semi finals against a World Class field including the current World No 2 (Sandra Frei) and last years World Cup Champion (Maelle Ricker)
Zoe started the race with obvious signs of pain comming out of the gate in 5th place but surprisingly managed to fight herself into a qualifying 3rd position for a majority of the course. Approaching the penultimate jump, Zoe was forced to slow her speed due to the athlete in front of her slowing herself, this caused Zoe to lose too much speed going into the jump where she then landed short of the landing area severely exagerating yesterdays compression injury.
This effectively ended Zoes X-Games competition as she was immediately taken to the medical centre for treatment.
Zoe is now expected to miss the next two competitions, hopefully being back to fitness for the next World Cup in Cypress, Canada on the 14th February.
Paolo
Zoe qualified in an excellent 3rd place but on her second qualifying run sustained a painful compression injury to her right foot which put her participation in todays finals in severe doubt.
Despite suffering excrutiating pain, Zoe only decided to compete in the finals after completing one training run this morning. In normal circumstances Zoe would complete 5 or 6 training runs on the course to ensure she had the best possible chance of winning and fully understanding the course.
Zoe tentatively went into the semi finals against a World Class field including the current World No 2 (Sandra Frei) and last years World Cup Champion (Maelle Ricker)
Zoe started the race with obvious signs of pain comming out of the gate in 5th place but surprisingly managed to fight herself into a qualifying 3rd position for a majority of the course. Approaching the penultimate jump, Zoe was forced to slow her speed due to the athlete in front of her slowing herself, this caused Zoe to lose too much speed going into the jump where she then landed short of the landing area severely exagerating yesterdays compression injury.
This effectively ended Zoes X-Games competition as she was immediately taken to the medical centre for treatment.
Zoe is now expected to miss the next two competitions, hopefully being back to fitness for the next World Cup in Cypress, Canada on the 14th February.
Paolo
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