ITALY: :Australia's Alisa Camplin thrilled with her aerials freestyle skiing bronze medal.

Record ID: 331737

  • Title: ITALY: :Australia's Alisa Camplin thrilled with her aerials freestyle skiing bronze medal.
  • Date: 23rd February 2006
  • Summary: SAUZE D'OULX, ITALY (FEBRUARY 22, 2006) (REUTERS) AUSTRALIA'S ALISA CAMPLIN GETS OUT OF VAN CAMPLIN WALKS TOWARDS HOTEL (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIA'S ALISA CAMPLIN SAYING: "It's pretty exciting. (Reporter: How do you feel?) Relieved to be walking away from the competition with two legs and the medal's just a bonus. It's been an awesome week, I'm really grateful. I've just had such a fun time. Every second, all the lows and all the highs, has made me a much stronger person and I know I'm capable now of so much more in the future, just as a person. It's not been about the medals, it's just been a very personal journey and the third place is just so exciting. (Reporter: Do you have plans for the future?) I'll decide in the spring when I've had a bit of sleep." CAMPLIN WALKS INTO HOTEL
  • Embargoed: 10th March 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVACGSCNQ7Q27EO5LIBSERH82H4Z
  • Story Text: Australia's Alisa Camplin was thrilled with her aerials freestyle
    skiing bronze medal but admitted just being at the Olympics was reward enough
    after recovering from serious injury.
    Camplin, the 2002 Olympic champion, tore the anterior cruciate ligament
    in her right knee in October 2005 and opted for radical surgery for a second
    time to give her a chance of defending her title at the Turin Games.
    The 31-year-old from Melbourne had a tendon from a dead donor grafted
    into her knee rather than wait for the ligament to heal naturally.
    "It's pretty exciting. (I'm) relieved to be walking away from the
    competition with two legs and the medal's just a bonus," she told
    reporters after finishing behind Swiss gold medallist Evelyne Leu and China's
    Li Nina.
    "It's been an awesome week, I'm really grateful. I've just had
    such a fun time. Every second, all the lows and all the highs, has made me a
    much stronger person and I know I'm capable now of so much more in the future,
    just as a person. It's not been about the medals, it's just been a very
    personal journey and the third place is just so exciting."
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