In spite of knee soreness and a very bruised and battered body, Alisa Camplin is competing again today in the second round of the Mt Buller World Aerials.
In spite of knee soreness and a very bruised and battered body, Alisa Camplin is competing again today in the second round of the Mt Buller World Aerials.
Camplin finished in fourth place in the opening round of the FIS Freestyle World Cup on Saturday, posting a qualifying result for the 2006 Torino Olympic Games in the process.
The 30-year-old aerial skier hurt her knee in training for the opening event, but is determined to take her place in the field because “it would be un-Australian and un-Alisa” not to compete and “fourth sucks”.
After a one-two finish yesterday, the Chinese duo of Nina Li and Nannan Xu go into today’s event as favourites, but a place on the podium for Alisa Camplin cannot be discounted.
Australian team-mate Liz Gardner will also be looking for a better day after missing the landing on both her jumps yesterday.
Gardner, who turns 25 today, has been landing both of her triple twisting double somersaults in training, and can make the podium if she puts both down on the Chamois jump site today.
Canadian jumper Deidra Dionne, who was air-lifted off the mountain on Thursday after a training crash, will have surgery at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital on Saturday to treat a wedge fracture of the C4-5 vertebrae and fuse the two segments.
Dionne has not suffered any impairment of motor function in the injury.
Camplin finished in fourth place in the opening round of the FIS Freestyle World Cup on Saturday, posting a qualifying result for the 2006 Torino Olympic Games in the process.
The 30-year-old aerial skier hurt her knee in training for the opening event, but is determined to take her place in the field because “it would be un-Australian and un-Alisa” not to compete and “fourth sucks”.
After a one-two finish yesterday, the Chinese duo of Nina Li and Nannan Xu go into today’s event as favourites, but a place on the podium for Alisa Camplin cannot be discounted.
Australian team-mate Liz Gardner will also be looking for a better day after missing the landing on both her jumps yesterday.
Gardner, who turns 25 today, has been landing both of her triple twisting double somersaults in training, and can make the podium if she puts both down on the Chamois jump site today.
Canadian jumper Deidra Dionne, who was air-lifted off the mountain on Thursday after a training crash, will have surgery at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital on Saturday to treat a wedge fracture of the C4-5 vertebrae and fuse the two segments.
Dionne has not suffered any impairment of motor function in the injury.
