It was incredibly challenging." There are a couple reasons why this accomplishment is amazing. "I made it back, I made it through all of those things. "I think the more important part of my story for myself at least is that I'm still here," she said.
For her, she said, getting to these Olympics isn't so much about winning medals as it is about survival. "I came back and I'm here." Sweeney now faces two days of luge races that get underway Monday. "I broke my neck and my back," she said, speaking to reporters after arriving in Beijing. " the training that they received all these years, she wouldn't be here today - or wouldn't be herself today if it hadn't been for that." But Emily Sweeney still left the sled track that day with devastating injuries, the kind that often end careers for top-tier athletes. She says the only reason her daughter is alive today is her skill as an athlete. "We took off running." Sweeney's body slammed side to side against ice hard and unforgiving as concrete. "I've never seen an accident.that bad," said her dad Larry Sweeney who was there that day in South Korea. Her recovery and return to the Olympics has been a long but important mission for her.īEIJING - Four years ago at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, Emily Sweeney was rocketing down the track feet first, banking through sharp turns at more than sixty miles an hour when her luge sled bucked and twisted out of control. 26-Tracks including Stay Down, Never Mind Them, No Handouts Prod.
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Emily Sweeney of the United States reacts after a training run at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.