Personal Life
She has been immortalised in song by the (now-defunct) UK indie band Three Litre in their composition "Downhill". The song featured as part of the band's "Alpine Suite" MP3 EP. Sampling the famous BBC "Ski Sunday" theme tune, the song uses Alcott's "lack of success" at 2002 Winter Olympic Games in order to attack the UK government's lack of sports funding.
In June 2008, Alcott climbed Mount Kilimanjaro along with fellow ski racers Julia Mancuso and Laurenne Ross, and Alcott's then boyfriend Mark Weaver. The climb raised US$30,000 for international humanitarian organization Right To Play.
As of January 2009, she lives in Hampton Court, England. Chemmy is also a motor sport fan; has an MSA Competition Licence and is competing in the 2012 Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge race.
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