After the accident with the Olympic champion: Vogel's opponent has never reported

Sunday, January 06, 2019

After the accident, she immediately suspected that she could no longer walk, Vogel said during an interview.

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It's been six months since Kristina Vogel collided with a young Dutch rider at full speed while she was training at Cottbus. For him, the accident unfolds slightly, Vogel is sitting since a paraplegic in a wheelchair. How is she?

Double Olympic and Paraplegic Gold Medalist Kristina Vogel faces the Dutch rider, whom she ran into during a serious training accident in June with mixed feelings – also because there was no no conversation so far. "If he had really wanted it, he would have contacted me, but in the end, I'm not sure," she said in an interview with Bild am Sonntag. The 28-year-old woman said that, in her situation, she had "asked herself if he wanted to talk to me, and then sought contact much sooner".

When asked if it would open to the junior driver when he was at his door, Vogel promised: "A very, very difficult question, maybe if I'm the one who put Kristina Vogel in her wheelchair, I would really mess him up, if he has the courage to come here, you can let him in. "

The woman from Erfurt collided on June 26 with a 60 km / h formation on the Cottbus concrete runway with the driver remaining on the runway while Vogel was accelerating. Why, the prosecution is continuing its investigation. The spinal cord of the athlete was sectioned at the seventh thoracic vertebra. Shortly before Christmas, she left the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin. She is currently planning the shared house with her friend Michael Seidenbecher.

The former athlete exception does not think at the moment to another sports career. First and foremost, it's about coping with everyday life: "I'm like a newborn and I still have a long way to go," Vogel said in an interview.