Coming back from an injury, only a few weeks ago, the Swiss racer Dominique Gisin, 24 years old, was close to be on the podium of the Olympic downhill in Whistler Creek. Behind of Julia Mancuso by a few hundreds of a second all race long, until the very last gate, Dominique fell heavily and stopped just before the finish line after a long jump.
Shaken but not seriously injuried, Dominique was disappointed but her spirit for upcoming events.
“My head hurts a bit and I’m a bit dizzy. There were a lot of jumps coming out of turns, which are not easy. There were a lot of bumps. I tried my best.”
I had a really long final jump and I started to turn in the air and I just tried to fall without hurting myself”
“Some days are just not your day. But you hope that day is not an Olympic day…”