Gillings back in training
Thursday September 2, 2010 - Email this article to a friend

The British snowboarder, Zoe Gillings, has had surgery on her damaged knee and is now back in training and looking forward to the new season ahead. She has admitted she was disappointed with her result in Vancouver.

Gillings injured herself in the Vancouver Games and came a disappointing 8^th.

She was a genuine medal contender.

Now she is recovered and training hard at the English Institute of Sport, EIS, in Bath.

It follows 6 weeks of rehabilitation and key hole surgery on her left knee which she injured in the semi-final of the Olympic Games.

"I'm really happy I'm back in the gym full time. I ended up damaging the cartilage and stretching the ligament in my knee and had to have surgery but at least I injured this during the Olympics and not the competition before. The operation went really well and my knee is nearly back to normal," she has said in a statement on her web site.

Back to the hard work

Her 8th place at the Games was the highest finish position of all of the British snow sports athletes at the Winter Games.

"Looking back, I'm disappointed with my 8th place finish, the injury didn't help but I have beaten all of the best snowboard cross athletes in the world in the last 6 months in one competition or another so I knew I could do it," she says.

"I did all I could on the day though, so I have no regrets."

It's not all been rehabilitation and training though, she has attended several corporate events with her sponsors BMW, British Airways and Pokerstars in her role as Brand ambassador.

Zoe Commented, "The last few weeks have been great, I attended a BMW experience driving day at Oulton Park race circuit, drove loads of different BMW's. I was then whisked away to the Pokerstars "Snow fest" event in Austria where I got to meet skiing legend Alberto Tomba and Tennis star Boris Becker during filming."

At the BMW driving day