- US skier Nina O'Brien suffered a scary fall during the women's giant slalom at Beijing 2022.
- O'Brien was responsive and soon asked emergency personnel how fast she was going when she crashed.
- O'Brien's heavily-favored teammate Mikaela Shiffrin also fell during a tumultuous event.
Nina O'Brien took a hard fall during the giant slalom event at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Monday, but only wanted to know how fast she was going.
O'Brien's scary fall came when she clipped one of the final gates on her run. Her skis split and her legs bent at an awkward angle before she hit the snow hard and tumbled through the finish line.
O'Brien was tended to by emergency personnel and stayed down on the ground for several minutes.
However, the US Ski and Snowboard Team tweeted that O'Brien was "alert and responsive" and asked responders about how fast she was going when she crashed.
She also was worried about delaying the event, the team said.
—U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team (@usskiteam) February 7, 2022
O'Brien was taken off in a stretcher.
She was in sixth place at the time of the crash, and was just one of several skiers to fall, including US star Mikaela Shiffrin.
Shiffrin later posted a message about the event, calling O'Brien's fall unfair.
"She showed so much heart and fire in her skiing today, and it all got shredded to pieces on the final turn," Shiffrin wrote. "This sport… this sport is so damn hard."
—Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) February 7, 2022
After the accident, the US Ski and Snowboard Team tweeted that O'Brien was being evaluated at a hospital and would provide an update later on.