The Jump 2016 Contestants Suffer More Injury Woe On The Snow

In it's first week we saw Rebecca Adlington become the first of The Jump 2016 contestants to sustain an injury and pull out of the reality TV show that pits various “celebrities” against winter sports challenges, and since then it's just got worse with three more withdrawing through injury and a fourth considering it.

Injury Woes For The Jump

• Four contestants injured out
• Christie doubtful to continue
• Beth Tweddle can't walk anymore

Adlington said her dislocated shoulder was more painful than childbirth, a description which makes even us chaps wince, and Tina Hobley, from TV soap Holby City, fractured her arm in two places following a lax clean up of the Ski-jump landing area by the crew who were perhaps gambling news of another injury would boost the ratings.

That's two of The Jump 2016 contestants down. Then Beth Tweddle, who had been leading in the odds at Bet365 to win the series, suffered an accident that left her with a broken back and fractured neck. Hospitalized immediately she had surgery that involved a piece of her hip being used to repair damage to two of her vertebrae.

It is reported she has taken some steps with assistance but in general terms can no longer walk, and the press have roundly condemned the show for endangering the health of The Jump 2016 contestants, with even the show's on-hand expert Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards blaming a lack of training for the high number of injuries.

The Jump 2016 Contestants Fall Out Thick & Fast

Meanwhile Linford Christie has injured his hamstring and may pull out, although that isn't entirely certain, and Mark-Francis Vandelli has already definitely done so having fractured his ankle forcing his withdrawal. That makes four stretchered off and another on the touchline for the time being.

The Jump 2016 contestants are thinning faster than guests at an Agatha Christie dinner party, and if you like to take advantage of UK gambling laws to indulge in a bit of novelty betting the odds landscape has changed (as contestants keep getting injured by bits of it).

Tom Parker is now 2/1 favorite at Bet365, Dean Cain holds up well at 11/4 (although with the history of Supermen and injuries during filming I'd be shit scared if I were him) with Sid Owen out there at 7/1, Brian McFadden at 15/2, Heather Mills at 12/1 and Sarah Harding at 18/1. Christie retains his 10/1 odds to win but they'll vanish unless his hamstring injury does.

The question is, are you betting on who'll win, or betting who'll be the last man standing? In this ongoing war of attrition between celebrities and winter, it would seem the season's weather is winning and The Jump 2016 contestants are all going home in an Austrian ambulance.