Three Swedish skiers competing in this weekend’s women’s World Cup races helped save a course volunteer’s life before their first downhill training session in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Lisa Hoernblad, who gave the stricken man first-aid after he suffered what she thought was a heart attack, followed up by finishing second in Thursday’s run.
“It was all about keeping him alive till we got to the top,” Hoernblad told The Associated Press on Friday. “It’s a pretty crazy situation when you are stuck for 10 minutes in a gondola like that.”
Hoernblad was accompanied by teammates Lin Ivarsson and Helena Rapaport when the man, believed to be a German volunteer, suddenly collapsed during the gondola ride up the mountain.