Samantha Cerio, the Auburn gymnast whose horrific injuries in a floor routine went viral last week, told “Today” on Monday that at first she thought “something was a little wrong.”Then reality hit when she looked down. Instead of hyperextending her knees on the landing, as she assumed, her legs had bent unnaturally backward, causing dislocations and multiple torn ligaments in both joints. “That’s when I saw what had happened, that’s when like the pain kind of started to set in and it got worse,” she said in the clip above. Medical staff at the NCAA regional semifinal in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, tended to her for about 10 minutes before she was carted off. “I’m really stubborn,” she said to “Today.” “I’m doing everything in my power to make it happen.”

Source: Huffington Post April 15, 2019 15:36 UTC