It does not seem to start until the new year i.e. after the end of the Strictly series. Are you suggesting that the professionals cannot make any arrangement for work over the rest of the year until the end of the series?

Hasn't she been quoted as saying she would like to start a family (though you always have to wary of quotes in tabloids), she could take a year out to do that.

Not fulfilling contractual obligations would be refusing to show up for no good reason - or suddenly taking another job on Saturday nights. Having an accident and being too unwell to work is a different matter. For it to be "unprofessional" there would have to be an explicit clause that said "no winter sports" in the contract. If there isn't, tough.

It was an accident, just like millions of people have accidents and have to miss work. Playing sports at the weekend, riding motorbikes, doing DIY... You can't expect people to never do anything with the slightest risk attached. People have to live. You seem to think she's gone out and deliberately hurt herself to try and get out of being in Strictly! I will say it again - it was an ACCIDENT!

For goodness sake! I never said it was NOT an accident!

And I'm sorry but I have direct experience of the business as it actually works.....

One thing she definitely is, is unemployed. And so desperate for fame that she took part in a show that could have jeopardised her dancing career.

Yes medicine has come on a lot in the last 20 years

Most knee surgery is done arthroscopicaly and that is a heavy duty knee brace.
I am not sure what more you want, if Ola does not look in pain enough for you it think you have been watching too many horror movies, poor girl.

I hope the injury is not career changing and she gets back to dancing soon.

She has been on the biggest show in the country for years so she has a certain level of fame. Enough for her to get a ton of free clothes/cosmetics etc.

Strictly is not her only source of income....she does plenty of cooperate gigs in the UK and internationally, teaches privately and has an endorsement deal with Proactive skin care.

She had a bad shoulder injury once when she dropped during a lift. She'll be more than fine in due time....it's probably not what you want to happen but hey, you'll just have to deal with it

As I understand it she was practicing under supervision of the jump, which bit of that isn't work?

Freelancers spend much of their life 'unemployed'.

I doubt that she is desperate for 'fame', tempted by a very large fee possibly (quite likely more than she would get from Strictly Come Dancing).

Flap 'em really fast did she?

It's just an unlucky accident. End of. Yes she was more likely to pick up an accident doing ski ing then she was dancing. But she could easily have picked up the same injury dancing from a lift going wrong or anything tbh. Yes it was more unlikely for her to be injured dancing or doing anything else she would usually do. But accidents happen I know for myself as my friend was just walking tripped and broke her leg. Completely accidental. No ones fault.

Some careers, sport carry more risks then others. But what ever you do in your life carrys some degree of risk.

Getting up in the morning, walking down the stairs, getting in a car, crossing the road.. The list is endless.

True!
And i remembered Jade Johnson, the long-jumper (European champion) who paired Ian Waite in Strictly 2009 (series 7) injured a knee during the dance show and had to drop out. If the newspaper was correct, this injury shattered her Olympics 2012 dream as well.
I believe this says a lot regarding 'risk'
Jade Johnson was not at fault for joining strictly. Why should Ola be criticised for planning to take part in the jump and in order to fulfil this plan doing a bit of practice in advance in her own time?

Do we know that she didn't ask permission to do the Jump (and the pre-show practice)? I'd think as long as they've been on SCD, they'd know the rules and wouldn't want to be sued. If I know my reality shows like I think I know them, Strictly'd be happy she was doing another show - anything to get press for themselves or any of their participants.

Anyone know who Steve will dance with in the final for the group dance?

Maybe Anya.

Im going to guess Anya - she was in the group dance that Ola should have been in on the sunday show

He might actually enjoy himself .. this time

Just wanted to add that apparently it was a fluke accident, rather than a practice or something like that going badly. My guess is by the sounds of things, it could have happened anywhere.

They'll be more bothered about appearing in Strictly Dance at Sandals holiday in April than anything else.

The tour under discussion with Arlene might be in jeopardy too.

I like Ola but it will be interesting to see him dancing with someone else. I'm constantly mentally re-arranging couples anyway!

Yes it will. Like Caroline dancing with Tristan on tour .. I wish I could see that. Not wishing Ola ill but I think dancing with Anya might be more like the happy experience Steve had hoped for.

Surgery certainly has changed ..... I had my first knee op in '89. Due to a car driver who 'never saw me' one Sunday morning when I was out on a training ride, I ended up with a broken R leg, ligaments torn to bits and my knee in ruins. It was 9 months before I could return to work as unfortunately I didn't have a sitting down job. That was the cause of me having another 6 ops over the years on my knee doing regular clean ups on day visits. Then four and a bit years ago, my surgeon gave up on it and I went in for a total replacement. This wasn't a pretty little joint but the whole shebang. Cutting into the tibia and fibia and inserting a new section of leg as such (although I have my original kneecap). An op that lasted four and a half hours. Another 5 months off work and pain like I have never experienced even during my accident. Days when I cried with pain. Yet now it is only when I look at the scar that required 40 staples down the front of my leg that I remember I have even had the op. The surgeon did a great job and at last I am pain free. Due to being unable to have a general anawhateveritiscalled, I had to have the last op with an epidural ............. now that provided some entertainment, I tell you lolol. Nothing like laying there hearing the sound of hammering, sawing and the like.

While we reminiscing on knee ops. I tore a cartilage in 1978. Ten days in hospital flat on my back with a Robert Jones Bandage (six layers of alternating wool and crepe bandages). I was probably one of the last not to have keyhole surgery. 6 weeks off work, 3 months of physiotheraphy, when it was decided it urgently needed a second opinion because it wouldn't bend beyond 30 degrees. The surgeon who insisted on doing it went lecturing in the USA and finally opened it up in 1984 concluding that a it was beyond repair and a full knee replacement was needed. Forget it!

2003 had a brilliant surgeon correct a problem with my hand and he did my knee replacement. Standing and exercising the following day. Home in 6 days walking with crutches - can't use a walking stick because of arthritic hands. Discarded crutches after 4 weeks. Driving again at 5 weeks.

In the hospital with me was a 70 year-old woman who had taken up competitive road cycling two months after a knee replacement 10 years earlier and was back in for a repair so she could continue with it - and she did.

Knee and leg surgery has come a very long way in the last 40 years and even more so since my knee replacement. I'm sure Ola will get the right physio and other treatment and be back dancing to the standard she was at before the accident within 6 months. We're getting to the point of almost being bionic.

I'd love to see Steve dancing with Anya but Tim tweeted this photo of rehearsals and Gordana is in it and Anya isn't, hopefully that doesn't mean anything though

https://twitter.com/TimWonnacott/sta...337728/photo/1

I read reports about people having knee surgery and replacements and it almost embarrasses me. There are all these people getting out of hospital in a couple of days and making remarkable progress. I was in hospital for 9 bloody days!!! and told under no circumstances to put weight on my R leg for 4 weeks. The first two days after the op I had a morphine drip, let alone think of going home. I know I am a big bloke and my knee had to be specially made for me but it seems odd to me how so many people get home early and I struggled. Even a relative of mine was back running half marathons in 6 weeks. The only person I have ever heard have a bad time through this op was a mates mother and she said the same as me. NO way was we having the other one done. I had my R done in Nov. and was supposed to have my L done in the Jan. When I went to see the surgeon two months after the op, he clapped his hands and asked if I was ready for my L to be done. After falling about laughing at my reply, he said he knew I would say that and thus hadn't ordered my L. He said most people who had this particular op didn't want the other one done. I don't know if there is different degrees of replacement but all I know is it damned well hurt for ages.

Yes exactly. Theres risk everywhere you turn. She may have not even been training like with the jump. She may have just decided she has a free day lets go for a ski in preparation for the jump training