Winter Olympics 2018: Canadian India Sherret in stable condition after brutal crash in ski cross

A CANADIAN skier is in a stable condition after another huge crash in the ski cross.

India Sherret, 21, became the second Team Canada athlete to be stretchered off the course and taken to hospital after a horror incident.

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She was competing in the preliminary heats when she came around a corner and lost control of her skis before a jump.

Sherret was then flung into the air and hit one of the large hills on the course with one of her competitors coming inches away from hitting her.

She then laid motionless as paramedics came rushing on to the course with the crowd realising the severity of the situation.

Sherret was taken away on a stretcher and assessed in a local healthcare facility and was confirmed to be in a stable condition.

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The Canadian Olympic Committee said: "She was taken to hospital where she is being assessed. She is in stable condition."

Sherret's team-mate Chris Delbosco suffered a suspected broken pelvis after a brutal 30-metre fall in the men's ski cross.

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The 35-year-old completely misjudged his take-off from a jump and accidentally performed a horror back-flip, which left him flying through the air upside-down.

He desperately kicked his legs in mid-air to try to reset himself but could not get upright before landing on his right hip and skidding several metres.

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Great Britain's Emily Sarsfield, 34, was knocked out in the quarter-finals of Sherret's ski-cross event.

Sarsfield has not received any UK Sport funding and has not been coached until the last six months of her 12-year career.

She said: "I have funded it by setting up a ski school. I have worked multiple jobs through the summer.

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"It's a different route to my peers but it just makes me that little bit more hungry.

"Luckily British Ski and Snowboard employed a coach six months ago and he is with me here today, but for 11 and a half years I was basically learning this sport by copying what people were doing on videos and giving it a shot myself."