Report about my Paralympic Games and why my daughter Ulla had to step in as a guide at short notice:
https://olympics.com/en/news/linda-le-bon-guided-by-last-minute-replacement-her-daughter
Belgium’s vision impaired skier Le Bon, 57, raced the downhill at the Winter Paralympics with her daughter stepping in to guide her.
Linda Le Bon finished an emotional downhill para alpine skiing race guided by her daughter who stepped in at the last minute as a reserve on Saturday (5 March).
The Belgian veteran is 57 but still very competitive in the vision impaired category. She had finished in second place in the downhill at the recent 2022 Para Snow Sports World Championships in Lillehammer, Norway.
Her original guide was Pierre Couquelet, a 1984 Winter Olympian in Sarajevo, but an administrative error left Le Bon without her first choice on the first day of competition at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games.
Up stepped her daughter, Ulla Gilot, to take up guiding duties.