In 2008, she was selected to take part in an experimental bobsleigh team targeted at the Sochi Olympics that was still six years away.

The following year she was involved in a bobsleigh accident in Germany on 29 November 2009 that caused her to spend a long time in hospital.

[citation needed] She nearly lost a leg and she had dozens of operations to repair her body at the University Hospital in Munich.

A court case in Germany resulted in a German official being fined for his negligence in allowing two bobsleighs onto the track at the same time.

[citation needed] Skvortsova returned to Russia in September 2010 where she entered a Federal rehabilitation centre.