Twenty-year-old gymnast falls from the parallels in training and dies: it was a promise

He was training, like every day, on parallel asymmetrical, when it has slipped e fall, beating on the ground with his back. It is so dead, just 20 years, a young woman promise of gymnastics who had accumulated such experience as to start training the children. Melanie Coleman, a promising young American gymnast, had been a victim of the accident on Friday and her condition had immediately appeared desperate: spinal cord injuries, in fact, led her to death on Sunday evening.

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The girl, who lived, studied and trained in Connecticut, fell right in front of her trainer, Thomas Alberti. Melanie Coleman she had been rushed to the Yale New Haven Hospital, but the doctors could not save her. CNN reports.

The girl's coach, still in shock, explained: "We are all upset, it was a serious accident but absolutely unpredictable. Melanie she slipped while doing exercises that for her were a formality and a habit ". The news of the death has shocked all United States and the web has mobilized to help the girl's family pay the funeral expenses: the initial goal, of 10 thousand dollars, has been largely exceeded and the fundraising has reached 64 thousand dollars.

Melanie Coleman, in addition to training, he studied nursing at Southern Connecticut State University. After the news of his death, which occurred after two days of agony, coach Thomas Alberti found it very difficult to find the right words in such a tragic moment: «It is a fatality that is difficult to accept and to elaborate for all of us. Melanie was a leader, besides being a great athlete, and she always had advice for everyone. From today, in the photos, we will always leave an empty place, in his memory ».

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