Elsa Desmond: 'I might have to sell my car in the autumn, it'll be worth it'

Elsa Desmond was just eight years old when she turned on the telly and found herself captivated by the sight of people launching themselves down an ice tube at what turned out to be the Winter Olympics in the Italian Alps.

The sport was luge and she was hooked.

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