Australian Olympic silver medalist BMX rider breaks back during training

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[quote]ustralian Olympic BMX rider Sam Willoughby has no movement from his chest down after a training accident in the United States of America, his family says.

The South Australian, who won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics and recently competed at the Rio Olympics, underwent surgery in California after sustaining fractures to his C6 and C7 vertebrae which severely compressed his spinal cord.

His parents, Colin and Sharon Willoughby, said the 25-year-old had the accident on September 10.[/quote]

[url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-22/bmx-rider-sam-willoughby-suffers-spinal-injury/7870152[/url]

That's unfortunate. I hope we don't see any reactionary stupidity over this given how young comparatively BMX is at the Olympics.

[Big D Duchovny]

That sucks, could've gone worse considering where he broke it, though.