0:37 In 1979, while training for the 1979 worlds Mukhina suffered a broken leg which kept her from competing.
1:00 She begged them not to remove her cast and discharge her because "they're dragging me from home to workouts" and she knew she was not yet healed.
1:59 With lingering weakness in her leg and mounting exhaustion from the grueling weight loss workouts she had to do to lose the surgery weight, Mukhina had great difficulty coming back up to speed on performing The Thomas Salto.
2:33 Elena had lost her mother at age of 5. Having only her grandmother, there was nobody who could protect her.
2:40 On July 3, 1980, two weeks before the Olympics, Mukhina was practicing the pass containing the Thomas salto when she under-rotated the salto and crash-landed on her chin, snapping her spine. She was instantly rendered a quadriplegic. (Meaning she could not move her body from her neck down)
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