• Former world champ airlifted off Gudauri slopes at World Cup event
• Scans reveal a fracture of a vertebrae but no neurological damage

Belle Brockhoff is “in good spirits” in a Greek hospital after a horror crash at a Snowboard Cross World Cup race in Georgia over the weekend left her with a serious back injury.

The 32-year-old, who has represented Australia at three Winter Olympics, was airlifted off the slopes of Gudauri after tumbling at relatively high speed on her last race of the day and landing on her coccyx on Saturday.