Recall this awful accident from 2007?
Wang Yan, listed as 15 or 16 years-of-age, fell headfirst from the uneven parallel bars, breaking her neck and losing consciousness after attempting an audacious dismount. …
Teenage gymnast feared paralysed for life after horror fall | the Daily Mail
How is she doing now?
Teenager Wang Yan is walking, talking and text messaging her friends less than two years after suffering a nightmarish accident on the uneven bars that put her in a coma and was expected to leave her permanently paralyzed.
Wang, 17, no longer requires help with her day-to-day life after experiencing a miraculous recovery from surgery that saw her on crutches two months after her horrific tumble in the summer of 2007.
She said she is literally taking her rehabilitation one step at a time. “I am still walking very slowly and when I speed up, I lose my rhythm,” she was quoted as saying by Sina.com. …
Despite the poor to non-existent odds of her walking again after fracturing her second and third vertebrae, Wang is getting faster by the day during her rehab sessions at the hospital attached to Zhejiang Vocational College of Sports.
Doctors there say she will need their assistance for another 12 months. After that, Wang will be able to do all her rehab at home – a program she will need to follow for the rest of her life.
China Daily – From coma to cook, teen gymnast on the mend
One mistake can have a lifetime of consequence.
3 comments ↓
What dismount was she trying to be in that position? That’s like a really really badly missed jaeger…
Honestly, if those are photos from the accident, I think putting them up is in poor taste. Most people do not want to see photos of a young girl breaking her neck, and out of respect for the girl too, those photos should not be up.
I love your blog, usually though!
Good point anon.
I did not post that photo sequence for the past 2 years, thinking the same thing.
But a theme of this blog is to caution coaches to be careful.
The spotter is in place yet still could not slow down the landing enough.
I’m hoping the time has come to post it. In light of the fact that she has made such a good recovery.
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