Sarah Lee and the cycling world shocked that Germany’s Olympic champion Kristina Vogel won’t walk again after crash
The 27-year-old Rio Olympic champion is paralysed from the chest down after suffering spinal injuries following a crash during training in June
Hong Kong track star Sarah Lee Wai-sze has been left devastated by the news that her great friend and rival, Kristina Vogel, will never walk again after suffering a horrific crash in June.
Lee had been praying for Vogel, the 2016 Rio Olympic women’s sprint champion, to pull through following a horrific crash that left the German with serious spinal injuries and she was extremely upset upon knowing that Vogel won’t be able to use her legs again after the accident left her with a severed spinal cord.
Lee took to social media in July to support the German who had to be airlifted to hospital in Berlin after colliding with another cyclist while training at the Cottbus Sport Centre Velodrome in June.
Although the Hong Kong heroine hasn’t taken to Facebook yet, it is understood she is saddened that the 27-year-old German will never ride or walk again with news shocking the cycling world.
The 31-year-old Lee, who recently bagged two Asian Games gold medals in Jakarta to extend her record-breaking gold medal success at the Games, has competed numerous times against the German, most famously when she was beaten by Vogel in the quarter-finals of the women’s individual sprint at the 2016 Rio Olympics.