Danger Junkies ; We're All Addicted to the Search for Speed, That's Why We Keep Going Despite These Terrible Accidents, Says Britain's Top Skier

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CHEMMY ALCOTT is used to placing her body on the line as she hurtles down a mountain at 90mph. Not even the anguish of seeing good friends come to grief on the ski slopes can deflect Britain's foremost downhill skier from her dream of success at the Winter Olympics in Canada in seven weeks' time.

On Christmas Day, Alcott, 27, flew from sharing the festive season with her family in Britain, where she has a new cottage close to Hampton Court Palace, to Austria to prepare for races tomorrow and Tuesday that take on new purpose with the Vancouver Games on the near horizon.

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Danger Junkies ; We're All Addicted to the Search for Speed, That's Why We Keep Going Despite These Terrible Accidents, Says Britain's Top Skier

She acknowledges that there is heightened tension in the air after a series of accidents to skiers of the calibre of downhill world champion John Kucera, World Cup slalom champion Jean-Baptiste Grange and former women's World Cup winner Nicole Hosp. Just last month,...

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