Serious injury for the blue at the Universiade in Germany, operated on the cervical vertebrae
The world of Italian gymnastics is with suspended breath. From Wednesday 23 July, when the blue Lorenzo Bonicelli, engaged in the summer universiade in progress in Essen, Germany, fell badly on the neck during the exercise to the rings, remaining motionless on the platform. Organizers and staff of the FISU (International University Sport Federation) immediately understood the severity of the accident and the rescue were immediate. The team was immediately withdrawn from the competition. The 23 -year -old from Abbadia Lariana (Lecco), still alert, was ensured to the stretcher and urgently transported to the nearby university hospital, where in the evening he was operated on the cervical vertebrae. No bulletin was issued from the medical center, but an update came through the Facebook profile of the former director of the International Federation (Fig), Steve Butcher: “Lorenzo is in a pharmacological coma after surgery. It will take at least ten days to know his conditions. The whole family of gymnastics prays and cheers for full recovery!”.
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From the federal president Andrea Facci to the medical manager of Federginnastica, Andrea Ferretti, the contacts between Italy and Germany are constant, but at the moment it is filtered exclusively that surgery has been fine. The gymnast of the Ghislanzoni Gal company, present at the Universiade as an economy student of the Mercatorum University, had appeared first time in international competitions in 2017 participating in the Austrian Future Cup, then the qualitative leap in 2019 with the team bronze at the Youth World Championships in Gyor, Hungary. Then the return to high levels after the pandemic, with the call to the Anversa World Championships of 2023, where the qualification of the Azzurri at the Olympiad in Paris celebrated from the platform. This year, in mid -May, he had participated in the last collegial of the technical director Giuseppe Cocciaro, without however being included in the group that played the European Championships in Leipzig in June. For many, it was only a matter of time, given that Lorenzo, a golden boy and willy in the whole group of the national team, who has the most congenial specialty in the bar, is a safe prospectus in view of the Los Angeles 2028 games. Also from Croatia, where the artistic youth national team is competing at the Olympic Festival of European Youth, the coach Paolo Bucci addressed a thought to the blue: “We want to express our closeness to Lorenzo Bonicelli’s family and personally, hoping that everything will be resolved for the best”. The wish, now, is that from Germany they will come as soon as possible on his state of health and that the gymnast can return to resuming the activity he loves as soon as possible. Virgine in the gym.