Snow joke as Thorn retires from South Wilts league
TWO broken wrists have sidelined Alex Thorn for the remainder of the Cuestars South Wilts Snooker League season.
The injuries happened while he was snowboarding in Les Arcs, a ski resort in the French Alps, a fortnight ago.
Thorn said: “After a few years of friends saying ‘come snowboarding with us’ and me saying ‘maybe next year’, this year I finally relented and thought I’d go.
“I’ve been before, a fair while ago mind. I can’t ski, but I did a lot of skateboarding in my youth and took to snowboarding fairly easily several years ago when I had a go.”
But disaster struck on the first day on the slopes.
“It only took me about an hour to pick it all up again, and I was having a great time link turning and bombing down the mountains,” explained the 38-year-old from Shrewton, Wiltshire. “I was getting on better than the others actually.”
However, that afternoon, the group was mistakenly taken down a mogul run (the humpy, bumpy type slope you see on Ski Sunday).
Thorn navigated it safely but, while waiting for one of his party who kept falling over, he was back flipped.
A broken scaphoid in his left wrist was put in plaster.
Two days later, he was diagnosed with a radial fracture in his right wrist.
Thorn expects to be out of commission for up to ten more weeks.