He loses his grip and falls from the parallels: the American gymnast Melanie Coleman dies at the age of 20

Melanie Coleman he was training, like every day, on uneven bars, when she slipped and fell, knocking her back on the ground. So she died, just 20 years old, a young promise of gymnastics who had accumulated such experience as to start training the children. Melanie Coleman, a promising young woman from the US gym, she had been a victim of the accident on Friday and her condition had seemed immediately desperate: spinal cord injuries, in fact, led her to death on Sunday evening.

To tell the terrible accident in which Melanie lost her life to the media is his coach, Thomas Alberti, which explained how that moment of distraction was fatal to her. "She was a leader, charismatic and ready to give advice. It was a difficult fate to process, "explained the coach. The fall took place last Friday and the young woman died Sunday 10 November, after two days in a coma. Online a fundraiser has started to support the Coleman who has already exceeded $ 65,000.