Hello! I hope this is okay... I'm doing NaNoWriMo and I have a couple of characters who are competitive figure skaters but injure themselves and, as I am a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pantser writer, I didn't quite work out their backstories before beginning and wanted to know if these character backstories are plausible and, if not, how to change them?
One character has a bad knee. He's a singles skater and injured his knee by landing badly out of a difficult jump combination. He took a season off to have surgery and recover, but it healed badly. When he got back on the ice, he found that it hurt to jump/ he wasn't jumping as well as all his competitors, and so retired. He can still walk, but he can't go on long hikes. I thought that maybe he had a patellar fracture, or tore his ACL but saw online that neither of those are a very common skating injury. Is it still possible for him to have either of those injuries? Or is there a more common knee injury that would let him be able to walk and skate, just not at an elite level?
Another character, a female pairs skater, gets a concussion from jumping into a lift when her partner wasn't ready. He doesn't catch her in time and she hits her head on the ice. I don't think that jump entries are super common for pairs skaters, but could I say she was doing it for an exhibition performance, or that they were trying to raise the difficulty of entry into the lift?
Thank you in advance! I really appreciate any help or advice people can give.
One character has a bad knee. He's a singles skater and injured his knee by landing badly out of a difficult jump combination. He took a season off to have surgery and recover, but it healed badly. When he got back on the ice, he found that it hurt to jump/ he wasn't jumping as well as all his competitors, and so retired. He can still walk, but he can't go on long hikes. I thought that maybe he had a patellar fracture, or tore his ACL but saw online that neither of those are a very common skating injury. Is it still possible for him to have either of those injuries? Or is there a more common knee injury that would let him be able to walk and skate, just not at an elite level?
Another character, a female pairs skater, gets a concussion from jumping into a lift when her partner wasn't ready. He doesn't catch her in time and she hits her head on the ice. I don't think that jump entries are super common for pairs skaters, but could I say she was doing it for an exhibition performance, or that they were trying to raise the difficulty of entry into the lift?
Thank you in advance! I really appreciate any help or advice people can give.