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Romanian Olympic wrestler Catalina Axente has been carried out of Champ-de-Mars Arena on a stretcher after a scary incident during her fight with American Kennedy Blades. Blades progressed through to the final in Paris, but not in the manner she would have hoped, having eliminated Axente from the competition with a crunching suplex move. Axente landed awkwardly and harshly on her neck, having been flipped Blades’s shoulder and onto the ground.
Medical staff rushed out to Axente, who was in obvious pain and discomfort following the hit. Blades showed genuine concern for her opponent as she laid sprawled out on the ground with doctors surrounding her. There were serious fears for a potential spinal injury, but the Romanian Athletic Committee has since cleared her of anything significant. “It seems that there is no spinal fracture, thank goodness because it seemed very serious,” the RAC said in a statement.
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