Ski Sunday host Chemmy Alcott suffers collapsed lung after jumping into lake

Ski Sunday presenter Chemmy Alcott says she suffered a collapsed lung after jumping into a lake while on holiday in France.

The 44-year-old former GB Olympic skier posted a clip on Instagram, external that showed her jumping off a five metre platform into Lake Annecy, in the French Alps, before landing badly and ending up in hospital.

“Most people badly time a front flip off a five-metre platform and get winded,” she said in the clip.

“I apparently don’t do things by halves. Collapsed lung, chest drain and a very expensive lesson in rotation.”

Alcott explained that she initially went back to jump again after her difficult landing, out of “embarassment” and “just so I wasn’t making a big deal out of it”.

But she soon realised she “couldn’t breathe properly and should probably go and get it checked out”.

She later shared images of herself in hospital with tubes and wires sticking out of her body.

In the caption to the main clip – titled “this didn’t end well” – she wrote: “Well… that escalated quickly. Turns out five metres is quite a long way to discover you’ve got the rotation wrong.

“One badly timed front flip. One very hard landing. One collapsed lung. One chest drain. And a few more hospital overnights than were on the holiday itinerary…

“I absolutely loved Annecy… but I’m not entirely sure it loved me back.”

A collapsed lung – medically known as a pneumothorax – occurs when air becomes trapped in the space between the lung and the chest wall, according the NHS.