Canada restricts the workouts on the track to avoid head problems

"There is no scientific evidence about" the technician explained to the newspaper Brendon Sun, "but I am convinced that an excessive number of descents lead to the formation of a nagging headache that occurs more easily against those athletes throughout their careers have suffered a trauma in that area of ​​the body. " The Canadian team in recent years has been particularly affected by this type of injury. Some athletes like Darla Deschamps, wife of Olympic champion John Montgomery, and Amy Gough, as a result of these traumas they had to put an end to advance their career. Even the two spearheads of team Canada, Sarah Reid and Mellisa Hollingsworth, were not exempt from accidents of this kind in the course of his career, although last season the problems of headache have occurred even in the absence of impacts violent at the level of the helmet. Reid in particular was forced to desert the'' final round immediately after the tests, due to the emergence of'' annoying headache, "I did not hit any part of the track with his head, but the track was quite bumpy and I have made many descents. Soon after I started to not feel well and so I did not take part in the race, "said the skelettonista. The skeleton is a sport where the human body is strongly subject all'' action of the force of gravity that occurs predominantly at the level of the head and neck of the athletes. Also, the head is the part of the body which first undergoes l'' violent shock in case of an error by the competitor. "The chin can sometimes crawl on the ice and if you round a curve with a wrong trajectory of the load force of gravity can be very high. Athletes We constantly this force that crushes us the face we call it is no coincidence that Mike Tyson "said Darla Deschamps. Mellisa Hollingsworth is convinced that he played the Vancouver 2010 Olympic medal just for the many descents made on the eve of'' Olympic event, "The amount of testing on the track at Whistler has been incredible. Did not know that test too gut would have resulted in these physical consequences. " The thirty-three Canadian has also admitted that he again suffered with headaches in this early season, but at the moment he does not think absolutely to retire. Duff Gibson, at the same quotidianom said that the Canadian federation is looking for a scientific solution to this type of problem. '' All the helmet of Canadian athletes during the tests you entered an accelerometer that allows you to vericare in detail'' the intensity of the forces that manifest themselves on the body of skelettonisti in different paths. With this tool you could possibly find the reason for these physical ailments. '' At the moment the only Canadian solution is called prevention, why Canadians in November in the last official test on gut Sochi will carry only three daily rounds of testing, "When we went to Sochi for the first time, the track was really ruined, and several athletes were disappointed by type of fund, "said Gibson," but many other national was keen to compete, obviously their athletes have not yet undergone the same physical damage you have suffered our hand. " The head coach of the Canadian, still found a different system of preparation of'' Olympic event. Gibson is convinced that their kids will be able to store the secrets of the best Russian track repeatedly by simply looking at the descents of the other athletes. "I'm sure we will do well in Sochi even if we will not test the track five times a day," concluded the coach.