Katie Tannenbaum, a skeleton slider from the U.S. Virgin Islands, struck a broom at high speed in a World Cup run in Igls, Austria, on Friday.
Tannenbaum’s helmet collided with the broom while she was going between 50 and 60 miles per hour, but she said afterward that she was OK, according to her social media.
She was 30 seconds into a 58-second run. Track workers use brooms to sweep snow off tracks, but race officials said it was blown into the track by the wind, according to Tannenbaum’s Facebook.
“I’ll save you all the sweeping puns,” was posted on Tannenbaum’s Facebook.