The Italian gymnast Lorenzo Bonicelli was awakened from the artificial coma after his serious accident at the World University Games Rhine-Ruhr. This was announced by the Italian gymnastics association (FGI) on Friday.
Bonicelli was in the qualification in the gymnastics on Wednesday Eat At the world championship of the students, felled by serums, afterwards the 23-year-old had to be operated on at the cervical vertebra. Bonicelli had failed on Wednesday during his exercise on the struggles, he landed on his neck after a triple backward salo. He was immediately medical cared for and drove to the nearby university clinic.
Bonicelli no longer in the artificial coma
“The condition of Lorenzo Bonicelli is stable and his life is not in danger,” said the association. Accordingly, the athlete, “remained” after the accident until the operation with consciousness “, was awakened from the artificial coma on Friday and is said to show” positive signs “since then.
According to a spokeswoman for the university hospital in Essen, Bonicelli is currently in the intensive care unit in the presence of his family. His teammates are said to have already visited him and spoke to him.
“The entire gymnastics family prays and keeps their fingers crossed for a complete recovery,” said Steve Butcher, the former President of the International Turnerbund (FIG), on Facebook on Thursday.
After the accident, the Italian team of supervisors had immediately withdrawn the Azzurri from the competition. The official announcement of the association was on Thursday: “The entire association is closed behind Lorenzo and wishes him a quick recovery. Forza Bonni!”
Our sources:
- Fisu (Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire)
- Cusi (Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano)
- Reporter on site
- L’unione sarda.it
- News agency: SID
