New Zealand alpine skier Alice Robinson has limped off the super-G course at the Beijing Winter Olympics following a heavy crash during her run.
Robinson caught a gate and took a heavy tumble at the start of the hydrobowl section of the course, sliding over 100 metres down the slope.
She was able to stand but appeared to have been winded after the fall. She skied to the bottom but quickly unclipped her skis and limped off the course.
1News understands Robinson avoided injury and did not require any additional medical attention after the race.
The 20-year-old appeared to be in with a chance at a podium, flying out of the gate and passing the first intermediate six hundredths of a second ahead of leader Lara Gut-Behrami, of Switzerland.
She fell back to 0.2 seconds behind at the second intermediate, although maintaining that pace still would've been good enough to move onto the podium.
Her crash moments later scuppered those hopes. Gut-Behrami claimed gold, while Austria's Mirjam Puchner and Switzerland's Michelle Gisin took silver and bronze respectively.
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