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Chimene "Chemmy" Mary Alcott (born 10 July 1982)〔 is a former British World Cup alpine ski racer. She competed in all five disciplines: downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom, and combined. Alcott competed in four Winter Olympic Games and seven FIS World Championships and been overall Senior British National Champion five times (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008). She retired from international competition following the 2014 season. == Early life == Born in Hove, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England,〔 Alcott was named after Sophia Loren's character in the 1961 film ''El Cid.'' She started skiing at 18 months old on a family holiday in Flaine, France, and first raced at the age of three. In 1993 Alcott won the Etoile D'Or French Village Ski Championship, becoming a member of the British Junior Alpine team in 1994 and won the 1995 ''Sunday Times Junior Sportswoman of the Year'' award. Every British summer from the age of eleven to nineteen, Alcott travelled to New Zealand to train in the antipodean winter.〔 She was a talented athlete as a youngster, not only representing Richmond in dry slope skiing, but also in tennis at the London Youth Games. Her achievements as a junior and senior were recognised when she was inducted into the London Youth Games Hall of Fame in 2011. Aged twelve, Alcott broke her neck in a skiing accident, recovering with two of her vertebrae fused together. She still carries X-rays of the injury so that if she is ever in an accident, the hospital will know not to prise the vertebrae apart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chemmy Alcott bio )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chemmy Alcott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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