Two-time Olympic champion Kristina Vogel says she has been paralysed from the chest down following an accident during training in June. The 27-year-old 11-time world champion track cyclist collided with another cyclist in a high-speed crash on the Cottbus concrete track in her native Germany on June 26th and was hospitalised. Vogel won team sprint gold, with Miriam Welte, at the London 2012 Olympics and individual sprint gold at the Rio 2016 Games, where she also won team sprint bronze. The part-time policewoman is a perennial winner on the world stage, winning four individual sprint world titles in the last five years, including at Apeldoorn, Holland, in March. “This is a sad situation for track cycling and the sport.

Source: The Irish Times September 07, 2018 16:41 UTC