LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Nearly a year after his Olympic moment ended in despair, Canada's Michael Douglas is back on the skeleton track and in a good frame of mind.
The 39-year-old X-ray technician sits 13th in the World Cup standings as the second half of the season gets under way in Igls, Austria this week.
Last February at Whistler on his home track, Douglas was disqualified prior to the third of four runs in the Olympic race because he left his sled runners on too long. He was seventh, just 12-hundredths out of third place, when officials made the ruling.
It took a while for Douglas to decide to come back — until midsummer — but he's glad he did. He says he wasn't going to let someone else dictate how his career ends.
Douglas finished 13th in each of the first three races of the 2010-11 World Cup season and was 11th at Lake Placid in December.