the darker side(s) of Athens: Ivet Lalova Breaks Leg / Osovnikar Matic survives car c

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Ivet Lalova Breaks Leg during Warm-up

Ivet Lalova, a European Champion at 200m, has broken her leg while warming up for a spring in Greece, crushing hopes for the World Championship this summer.

Sports: 14 June 2005, Tuesday.

Bulgarian top-speeded sprinter Ivet Lalova has broken her right leg while warming up for a sprint in Greece, media announced Tuesday evening.

Lalova will undergo surgery early on Wednesday morning at a Greek clinic, and medics have projected that her full recovery wpuld take no less than six months.

The accident means that Lalova, who has been Bulgaria’s most successful sprinter over the last few years, will be unable to participate the World Championship this summer.

Earlier this month, the 21-year-old sports star won the 100m finals in the International Golden Spike in the Czech Republic.

Lalova is also a European Champion at 200m and a double Olympic finalist last year.

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And Matic Osovnikar of Slovenia survived a car crash which cost 3 of his athletes friends their lives and left another 2 still in coma. The only survivors were Osovnikar and his trainer who drove the car.

Matic started in Athens. Found no news about it on the net.

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Same thing happened last year in Paris Golden League meeting, Ivet was doing drills and was suddenly stopped by someone crossing the warm-up track. There was no accident though. Very unfortunate Ivet, shish her a quick comeback.

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ANYONE know what Lalova broke? Is it a break, or a stress fracture?; IN the shin, the foot? Was she training through with a stress fracture which became a compound break? Or did someone bump into her in Athens? It is of interest. kk :confused:

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Wed 15 June 2005 11:00

Ivet Lalova Undergoes Operation in Athens

The operation of Bulgaria’s top-speeded sprinter Ivet Lalova began Wednesday morning in Athens clinic, media reported.

Last evening it was announced that Ivet broke her right leg while warming up for a sprint in Greece.

Initially it was planned that Lalova was operated in Helsinki, but after a medical consultation it was decided that she should be operated in Greece as a possible transportation might be very risky.

Doctors have predicted that her full recovery would take no less than six months.

The accident means that Lalova, who has been Bulgaria’s most successful sprinter over the last few years, will be unable to participate the World Championship this summer.

Earlier this month, the 21-year-old sports star won the 100m finals in the International Golden Spike in the Czech Republic.

Lalova is also a European Champion at 200m and a double Olympic finalist last year.

Wed 15 June 2005 11:00

Lalova Surgery Ends Successfully

The medical operation of Ivet Lalova’s broken right leg has been completed successfully, it emerged on Wednesday.

The sprinting superstar suffered an accident in Greece late on Tuesday, and had her leg broken above the knee. Recovery will take at least six months, medics have said.

Lalova, aged 21, is expected to be back from Greece to Bulgaria in a week.

Thus Bulgaria’s most successful sprinter over the last few years will miss this summer’s World Championship.

“The Bulgarian Sports Ministry will assist Ivet Lalova in any possible way to speed up her recovery,” Minister Vassil Ivanov was cited as saying.

He has had a telephone conversation with the injured athlete.

Lalova is a European Champion at 200m and a double Olympics 2005 finalist.

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What else can you say, but that sucks!?!?
And hope that she makes a speedy recovery.

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AUT, where and when do you got this ? :eek:
I thought to see Matic running in Ostrava last week.

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[QUOTE=pierrejean]Wed 15 June 2005 11:00

Ivet Lalova Undergoes Operation in Athens
Lalova Surgery Ends Successfully

The medical operation of Ivet Lalova’s broken right leg has been completed successfully, it emerged on Wednesday.

The sprinting superstar suffered an accident in Greece late on Tuesday, and had her leg broken above the knee. Recovery will take at least six months, medics have said.[QUOTE=pierrejean]

:slight_smile: THANKS PJ,

I met Ivet last year. She was really a sweet kid. No ego, no tension just friendly.

I too hope she makes a complete and rapid recovery.

But we still don’t know the circumstances of this injury. A break above the knee indicates femur, which is pretty hard to do - especially if there was no impact/collision involved in the trauma.

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This was posted by Steve Francis (Asafa & Sherone’s coach) on the Caribbean T&F messageboard:

''Sherone was totally out of it today. She watched Ivet Lalova break her femur on the warm up track. She started to cry, and at that point, you could see that her heart was not in it.

It was a most horrendous accident. We were in a most restricted warm up area, not meant for the volume of athletes that were at the meet. Why didn’t they use the warm up tracks?

Lalova tried to avoid an athlete who was in her way, stubbed her spiked foot, flipped over and broke her upper thigh. It was very very horrible, and I hope that she will be okay eventually, so that she can resume what was a very promising career.’’

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Wow. That account from Francis is chilling. I can’t imagine wanting to get out on the track after witnessing that. <clutches legs>

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Yes, he still started less than one week after the accident and ran a 10.36.

A friend from Slovenia told me about it and the commentators on Eurosport made a comment on the “nightmare” he must be going through, too.

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Car crash happened on sunday 05 of jun.But there were no info about Osovnikar was in that car.The driver of the young athletes took 7 persons in opel vectra but i have no info that one of them was Osovnikar.But we lost a member of Slovenian olympic team in Sydney Matic Sustarsic(member of 4*100m team)and also two young athletes of 17 and 23 years.www.rtvslo.si