A female working staff for ski jumping of China's 11th Winter
Games dropped from a cable car on Wednesday morning after men's
K90m individual event.
The accident took place about 20 minutes after the event when
Hou Shuangmei, a broadcaster for the competition results, tried to
take the cable car downhill with a female colleague.
Hou failed to be seated since she had not pulled down the
protective handrail and slided off the cable car. She got hold of
an edge of the car with one hand and her colleague's arm with the
other when the car left the landing area.
Hou did not hold any longer and fell off the cable car at a
place which is about five to six meters above the hillside.
About 10 referees and other staffs crowded around the
broadcaster.
"I can't hold any longer and it was too scared," the broadcaster
said with screams for hurt.
"My up thighs and buttocks hurt badly," she shouted.
Since no one at the venue was able to give professional medical
first aid, the crowd comforted the wounded and tried to help her
stand up.
The crowd moved the broadcaster about several meters down from
the place where she crashlanded before two medical officers climbed
up to her.
One of the officer used bandage to fasten the broadcaster's legs
and the crowd moved her onto a simple stretcher.
The broadcaster was carried into an ambulance waiting at the
foot of the hill. It is about 20-minute drive from Yabuli skiing
resort to the nearby hospital in the Yabuli town.
(Xinhua News Agency January 23, 2008)