How a wrist guard might have saved Katie Ormerod's wrist in Pyeongchang – Engineering Sport
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The winter Olympics haven't even started and we already have injuries in the British camp. Britain's medal hope, freestyle snowboarder Katie Ormerod, has fractured her wrist during training in Pyeongchang. Despite this setback she is still planning on competing in the slopestyle qualification on Sunday — less than a year after she fractured her L3 vertebra at…
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Winter Olympics: Team GB snowboarder Katie Ormerod's heel injury was 'worst ever' - BBC Sport
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Winter Olympics: Katie Ormerod has surgery on fractured heel - BBC Sport
Katie Ormerod's toughest 360: Bouncing back from injury
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Team GB snowboarder Katie Ormerod ruled out of 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang after suffering injury blow - Mirror Online
Katie Ormerod's toughest 360: Bouncing back from injury