Chemmy Alcott competed in her third Olympic Games at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Alcott competed in all five alpine disciplines and equalled her best Olympic placing after finishing 11th in the super-combined.

Alcott also achieved a further two top 20 finsihes, placing 13th in the downhill and 20th in the super-G.

At the Turin 2006 Olympic Winter Games Alcott's 11th place finsih was the best Olympic performance by a British female skiier since 1968, she also achieved a top twenty finish in the Super G.

Her Olympic performances came after a frustrating 2005 when she battled against a foot injury. She shared a room in Sestriere with the Skeleton silver medallist Shelley Rudman. After her exploits on the slopes The "Chemmy Supporter Hoodie" became a must have fashion item. At her debut Olympics the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games, aged only 18, she competed in all five events and finished 14th in the combined.

Alcott started to ski when she was just 18 months old and took part in her first fun race when she was three.

Voted the Sunday Times Junior Sportswoman of the year in 1995 she made the British ski team at age 16. At school she motivated herself by setting an A Level target after which she would concentrate on skiing; she got four grade As. She took silver and bronze medals at the European Youth Winter Olympic days in 1999(SG-silver, SG – Bronze). At  19 years old, Alcott had already established herself as a leading competitor in her age group and was ranked top 10 in the world for her year of birth. She halved her ranking in all disciplines, the biggest improvement being downhill where Alcott jumped from 683rd to 126th over the course of the 2001-2 season. Her Olympic debut followed but the breakthrough at world level came six years later with with a career best 9th at the FIS World Cup in Cortina in January 2004.

For more information on Chemmy check out her website on: www.chemmyalcott.com