Drugs aren't the answer... After three days of antibiotics and rest, we hoped Scott would be ready for today's Super G. Not so! He says he felt OK for two turns, then got weaker and weaker in the course. By the time he was halfway down he couldn't breath, was getting tunnel vision and was dizzy. Nice time to hit a jump at about 60 MPH.
He doesn't remember much except twisting in the air and cartwheeling for quite a while. The end result is evident in the photo, a bent ski and broken binding. Guess it could have been worse. Atomic sends us replacement skis -- they don't do arms and legs though.
So now we're left with few good options. I pulled Scott from tomorrow's Super G for safety and health reasons. He needs time to recover from the pneumonia. We may wind up just sitting here in an Aspen Condo all week getting well for J2 Nationals. Its a bitter pill given that Scott loves speed events and this hill. There are huge scoring opportunities here this week as well. But we can't lose sight of which race series are the most important to his career.
At least this is a nice condo...
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