Rio De Janeiro-French gymnast Samir Aot Saod suffered a horrific double leg fracture at the Rio Olympics on Saturday as shocked rivals questioned the scoring system which pushes competitors to try increasingly unsafe moves.
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Said underwent surgery on Saturday night (Sunday NZ Time) to fix the tibea he fractured while trying to land on vault.
A worldwide audience was horrified when Ait Said’s left leg snapped as he landed a vault during the men’s qualifying competition, with the lower half of his shin dangling grotesquely after the bone audibly snapped.
When Samir Alt Said broke his leg yesterday, a lot of National Basketball Association fans probably thought of the same thing: Paul George. We don’t know what happened, except that it was his tibia.
Medical staff first brought a wheelchair out for the injured gymnast, who was in obvious, visible pain, but ended up taking him off the floor in a stretcher.
“The operation went very well and I can be back on my feet quite soon, relatively”, Said said. “I will go back to the training camp to encourage my friends because the competition is not over”, he said. Not only will he be in the arena once again, he’ll be sporting a red-and-blue cast. ‘They managed to keep their act together after my fall. That must have been really hard.
Said has vowed to return to the Olympics in 2020, and is now recovering in hospital from the break. “I was warming up when I saw it on TV”, said Germany’s Fabien Hambuechen, a silver medallist from London 2012 on the horizonal bar.
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“Believe me, the Tokyo 2020 adventure is still alive”, Said said. He was one of the friendliest on the team which is very hard – he came to win a medal and gave everything, 200%.
