Renee Junga - Injured at the World Championships  
(12 comments)  Monday, 28-August-2006  06:51 AM - by daymz 
News as reported in the Melbourne Age today:

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AUSTRALIAN mountain biker Renee Junga, who had a 10-hour operation on her damaged spine on Friday, has been given a one-in-800 chance of regaining feeling and movement in her legs.

The 20-year-old Junga crashed last Tuesday while training in Rotorua for the mountain bike world championships.

She broke her C1 and C2 vertebrae, two ribs, her sternum, and almost severed her spinal cord at the T6 vertebra...
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Story continues here:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/...012790371.html

And another story here:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...60-952,00.html

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