Skiers, snowboarders still riding despite debilitating injuries
When Simon Dumont, one of the winningest halfpipe skiers in the world, stood at the top of the pipe for the final Olympic qualifying event last month, he was hurting and down to just his right anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); he’d blown the left one the day before. He put down a less technical run than he normally does and finished 12th.
That run will probably be his final competitive trip down the halfpipe.
Dumont’s knee injury kept him off the podium, which meant he didn’t have enough points to … More