By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Recently retired Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Cate Campbell tore her ACL while skiing in Japan.
“I survived my trip down the mountain. My ACL did not,” Campbell said in the post on Thursday. The injury happened on January 17.
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Campbell was skiing on the slopes of Mt. Kenashi west of Tokyo, a 1,964 meter (6,444 ft) mountain, when her right ski got stuck. She heard a “pop” in her knee and had to be picked up by ski patrol, joking that she finished her first black run “in a body bag.”
The bag was actually a stretcher surrounded by a protective fabric, but she joked that it resembled a bag used to transport dead bodies.
“Skiing is great until you find yourself hurtling down the mountain in a body bag,” she said on Instagram.
Several other high profile swimming names chimed in on the post. Her sister and fellow Olympian Bronte Campbell said that “I’m obvs (obviously) glad you’re ok but I’m more glad someone filmed this”; Emma McKeon said that she thought it was a meme when she initially saw it.
Cate Campbell underwent surgery the day after her post.
The 32-year-old announced her retirement from competitive swimming last summer after missing out on a bid to compete in a 5th Olympic Games.
Campbell stayed relatively healthy throughout her swimming career, in part by “avoiding risk,” though she has embraced taking more risks now that she is retired. She had shoulder surgery in November to improve her post-career quality of life, and had nerve damage related to a contraceptive that was placed in her left arm to manage her periods while racing.
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