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...champion. "The amount of hours we train, it's a lot for your body, and there are going to be times when you get hurt." Such injuries can sometimes be life-threatening: last summer, Wang Yan, a Chinese Olympic gymnast who was competing at her national championships, fell head-first from the uneven bars and broke her neck; in 1998, another Chinese gymnast, Sang Lan, then 16 and competing at the Goodwill Games in New York City, fell while performing a warm-up vault and fractured her spine. Both athletes were paralyzed and are not likely to walk again...
...seemingly routine tackle during a Sunday game. Doctors quickly ran an ice-cold saline solution through his body--a relatively new treatment to prevent spinal swelling. That may have saved him from lifelong paralysis. These types of injuries are much rarer now since high schools and colleges prohibited head-first tackles in 1976. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Football injuries resulting in quadriplegia- high school, college and professional ? '76 -- 34 ? '84 -- 5 ? '91 -- 1 (Mike Utley, Detroit Lions...
...Head-first tackling was banned at all levels...
...game-time roster. Martin “gave us everything,” Stone said. “She was dead-on on all the pucks. She controlled her rebounds, she was aggressive when she needed to be. The kid’s got moxie jumping out like that head-first. She played with a lot of confidence and a lot of poise in a very pressure-cooker game.”“I just wanted to step up to the plate,” Martin added, also praising the efforts of Shipe in the opposite...
...walked to open the frame and advanced to second on a single by Wilson. Wallace then pushed both runners over with a sacrifice bunt. After Byrne reached on a fielder’s choice, Morgan Brown legged out an infield single—diving into the first base bag head-first to beat a throw from Nichols—to score Wilson and put the Crimson ahead...