Even if he wins The Jump this weekend, Louis Smith won't be going near a ski slope again any time soon.
Talking to The Mirror, the gymnast revealed that he will be banned from the sport for three years while he trains for the next Olympic Games, which sounds like a good enough reason to us.
"I can't go on skiing holidays while I'm in training. I have the show finishing on March 12, I fly back on the 13th and the 14th I'm back in the gym. So straight back into it, no time to waste," Louis explained.
"The next time I can ski will probably be after the 2020 Games. I will miss skiing but it's not the first time I've had to sacrifice stuff."
Louis will be going up against Amy Willerton, Emma Parker Bowles, Jason Robinson, Kadeena Cox, Spencer Matthews and the now-reinstated Lydia Bright, following the exit of Gareth Thomas, in Sunday's (March 12) final.
And he reckons that Spencer is his closest rival to the crown.
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"I don't want to give him a big head, but I said to him, 'If you had dedicated yourself at a young age to a sport, I have no doubt [you] would have been an Olympian'," Louis noted.
"The way he takes things on and understands his body and what he needs to do to improve his technique; like me he learns very quickly, and so I said to him, 'You could have been a very successful sportsman'."
Whatever happens on Sunday though, Louis reckons he's not in it to win it and is just "going to enjoy the moment". Sure, we believe you...
The Jump concludes at 8.30pm on Sunday (March 12) on Channel 4.
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