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SHANGHAI, China (AP) - A teenage gymnast likely will be paralyzed for life following a horrific fall from the uneven bars at the national championships, a key warmup for next year's Beijing Olympic Games.
Chinese gymnast Wang Yan, whose age was given as 15 or 16, fell from the bars headfirst during Sunday's final in Shanghai, breaking her neck and losing consciousness. Doctors said she was fortunate to have survived at all given the severity of her injury, the Shanghai Daily reported Thursday.
"The patient could not react to stimulant under the chest bone, and both hands lost their capability to move," Jia Lianshun, a bone specialist with the People's Liberation Army medical corps, was quoted as saying.
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