THE one-year countdown to the Winter Olympics in Sochi began on Thursday, but Scotland's Gillian Cooke, who survived a horrific bobsleigh crash on the Vancouver track that killed Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili at the last Games, is in Russia already, fighting for her place in the British team.
THE one-year countdown to the Winter Olympics in Sochi began on Thursday, but Scotland's Gillian Cooke, who survived a horrific bobsleigh crash on the Vancouver track that killed Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili at the last Games, is in Russia already, fighting for her place in the British team.
Gillian Cooke is confident of performing well on the Olympic track
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The Olympic test event there next week will determine whether finance for the women's pair – Cooke is partnered by Paula Walker – will continue. Another crash, in early January, derailed good results which seemed likely to guarantee continued backing. Friends reported Cooke could barely walk, amid fears she had aggravated nerve damage suffered during the crash in Vancouver.
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