Bugün öğrendim ki: Sovyet jimnastikçi Elena Mukhina, 1979'a kadar bir sonraki büyük jimnastik yıldızı olarak lanse edildi. Antrenörü, bir yaralanmadan sonra iyileşmesini hızlandırdı ve tehlikeli bir hareket (Thomas salto) yapması için ona baskı yaptı, bu da boynunu kırmasına neden oldu ve onu bir ömür boyu terk etti. kuadriplejik. 2006'da 46 yaşında öldü

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Soviet gymnast (1960–2006) This article is about the Russian gymnast. For other uses, see [Mukhina](/wiki/Mukhina_\(disambiguation\) "Mukhina \(disambiguation\)") . **Elena Vyacheslavovna Mukhina** ([Russian](/wiki/Russian_language "Russian language"): Елена Вячеславовна Мухина; first name sometimes rendered "Yelena", last name sometimes rendered "Muchina"; June 1, 1960 – December 22, 2006) was a [Soviet](/wiki/Soviet_Union "Soviet Union") [gymnast](/wiki/Gymnast "Gymnast") who won the all-around title at the 1978 World Championships in [Strasbourg](/wiki/Strasbourg "Strasbourg"), France. Her career was on the rise, and she was widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until 1979, when she broke a leg and missed several competitions. The rushed recovery from that injury, combined with pressure to master a dangerous and difficult tumbling move (the [Thomas salto](/wiki/Thomas_salto "Thomas salto")) caused her to break her neck two weeks before the opening of the [1980 Summer Olympics](/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics "1980 Summer Olympics"), leaving her permanently [quadriplegic](/wiki/Quadriplegic "Quadriplegic").