WHATEVER you did last weekend, be grateful that you are not a member of the Australian ski cross team along with Olympians Scott Kneller and Katya Crema, Anton Grimus and Sami Kennedy-Sim.

For they were woken at 3am on Saturday in order to hike to the top of of Mt Buller, then across to Little Buller. It took 4 1/2 hours in driving rain, but that was just the beginning.

For the full article written by Nicole Jerrery in the Australian, please visit the link below.

Winter Olympians pushed to limit on long, hard road to Sochi