This is the awful minute for French gymnast ‘Samir Ait Said’ after he seriously broke his left leg while arriving on a vault and had his pain further compounded by the accident when hapless medical staff dropped his stretcher as he was hurried out of the stadium.
Samir Ait Said's leg snapped as he attempted to finish his vault amid group preliminaries on Saturday, with the sound of the injury echoing through the venue. As he folded to the floor, Said writhed in distress while restorative authorities tended to him in front of a shocked crowd.
As Said grabbed around his knee and looked up at his lower left leg, he saw it flop unnaturally to the side. He covered his face with his right hand and was silent, perhaps too in shock to scream.
The 26-year-old athlete who competed at 2015's World Championships in Glasgow, won gold on the rings at 2013's European Championships and then silver in the same discipline in 2015.
It is the second time he missed the golden chance as he has a genuine injury in an Olympic year after breaking his right leg in a similar event before the London amusements in 2012.
He said in a statement, “The operation went very well, I should be back on my feet in a short time and I will go back to the training camp to encourage my friends because the competition is not over,” local media reported.
“The team managed to mobilize after my fall and that cannot be easy. They are real fighters,” he added.
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