LAKE PLACID, NY – OCTOBER 11: Noelle Pikus-Pace, member of the USA Olympic Skeleton Team, writes in her journal in the start house before training at the Verizon Sports Complex in Lake Placid, New York. Pikus-Pace, who was the first US women to win the overall World Cup in 2005 and a leading contender to win a gold medal in Torino, sufffered a broken leg in a fluke accident in October. Pikus-Pace has not let her injury stop her. With countless hours of physical therapy and training, she hopes to be recovered in time to race in Torino. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)