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“Then my hands drop to my side and I go headfirst into the wall. I start having a grand mal seizure.”

Roy tried to stop and his skates went out from underneath him, causing him to go headfirst into the boards.

Skeleton, the sliding sport where competitors go headfirst down an icy track at speeds often exceeding 80 mph, has been highly affected by the Sochi doping scandal.

She silently pleaded with him to slide and held her breath when he didn’t, instead choosing to go headfirst into another collision.

Uhlaender has been the overall World Cup champion, won the world title at Lake Placid in 2012 and is the only woman in her sport - where sliders go headfirst down an icy mountainside chute at speeds that can exceed 80 mph - to win gold, silver and bronze medals at the world championships in her career.