Sang Lan 1998 Vault

[gbernard23]

So this can be the argument why no one should be doing gymnastics,especially the event which it happened.

[sunnypuppy22]

@gbernard23 there will never b an argument because gymnastics is actually a very safe sport accidents like this dont happen aften and are rare. if you want to do gymnastics do it its perfectly safe tese r just freak accidents

[Purpleglitterguh]

She got paralysed

[gymnasticsandmusic]

i think sang lan was one of the best gymnast on the vault in the history of gymnastics

[Lolracok2]

@gymnasticsandmusic No my dear..Elena Mukhina was the best of bests :p well she was awesome good too..but Elena was more 

[Showjumper20081]

Why the fuck are all the comments about Leprechauns??

[Katelinanator]

for all of you guys talking about lephrachauns----STOP THATS NOT THE POINT

[hotwaiter]

what is the "r" word? I even went to their website and they didn't have it on there. I might be using it and don't even know it. is it "repair"? or "redirect"? i'm so confused.

[nowak93]

hahahaha, the irony! :D

[Solyle37]

I feel so sorry for her

[MarieMegaan]

@onesongglory523 i know thats sad

[stearroyo]

what happened to her? i do not get it can someone shine some light on this subject, Pease

[gymnastictwins4ever]

@stearroyo She was paralyzed performing a vault timer at the Goodwill games.

[Lan1998]

Were is she from?

[MyStardazzle]

@Lan1998 China!

[TorysApollo]

I've heard that she has no regained the use of her arms! Isn't that optimistic? I hope with time there will be more for her.

[michelelohman]

From what I remember, Bill Strauss from the Parkettes was the only one to get the accident from the Goodwill Games on video, and he erased it. I think that's what I remember from the GWG coverage back in 98.

[sprinklefriend]

@michelelohman i don't think they said it during the GWG, but i know that's definitely correct information, whenever it was shared.

[TuesdayPillow]

Who died? Sang Lan is still alive.

[loulou5051]

poor girl its sad realy because we may never see some great gymnasts form the last generation

[noella7777]

Beautiful girl. There should be more videos of her. The ones I've seen so far show her in the red outfit.

[CrazyPrincess1021]

here story is sad.

[youfcku]

she was paralyzed during her vault....idiots

[cooperget]

omfg... u guys are so fucking stupid...she not dead -.- retards, she's using a wheelchair

[theghastlypirate]

@cooperget Please do not use the "r" word! That is really offensive. Thanks.

[21agosto95]

What is it on the carpet?? Whe she finished her vault????

[niyuki87]

she died...

[fefe1920]

she did? when?

[ChocolateChadice]

I thought in a different video of this they stated that she lost control in mid air and landed on her head.

Wasn't it Julissa Gomez that mistepped on the springboard and hit the vault/horse full on..........

[90armandito90]

good Lopez. vault. Made In Mexico

[FirstConsulSiouxVI]

served her well

[KungFuMonkeyy]

fuck u

[megarouge2001]

Precious little thing.

[trampolinedance]

yeah your right....(I)

[mka800]

If only all her vaults could have been like this one here.

[flegmister]

SO IS SHE DISABLED BECAUSE OF THAT

[fwcoxgymnast]

No, she is paralyzed doing the same vault at a different meet. She hit the springboard wrong and ended up hitting her head on the vault full force. Now she is paralyzed. (There is no video anywhere out there that has the disabling vault recorded.)

[whitneyjordyn08]

The disabling vault was a practice vault, so I don't think many cameras, if any at all, were active to record it. Personally, I'm quite thankful for that. I heard that Sang Lan is doing a lot better now. God is watching over her. She is a wonder and has a beautiful heart. =]

[custardaghost]

@whitneyjordyn08

If your God is watching over her now, what was he doing when she crashed into that vault? How could you possibly find comfort & reassurance for yourself - and, by prescription, for Sang Lan - from an entity capable of this very worst kind of arbitrary cruelty? And use its supposed morality as your ideal and what all else is judged against?

Sang Lan was saved by human skill & her quality of life is because of her strength & the help of good people. Not by your Easter Bunny.

[Jeeptruck86]

@custardaghost

Why would people choose to be "good"?  And "good" by what standard? If there is no moral standard then how can anything be deemed good or not good? Did you mean good relative to bad? What is bad? Do you mean good like the nicest murderer? Or good like the meanest human rights activist? Every thing that we experience here, good or bad, is temporary. I will die, you will die. Temporary.

[xTheHWordx]

@custardaghost please have respect for other people's religiouns

[custardaghost]

@xTheHWordx

Fuck other people's imaginary sky-killer worship.

Using Bronze Age bullshit to pretend that catastrophic injury is somehow noble is sickening and should have died out at the same time as the goddamn Inquisition. But no, you sappy, Jesus-wheezing losers have to keep killing in the name and hating in the name ever after.

Dawkins, we pray you work to give this poor girl all the benefits of atheist scientific advancement and keep these teenage God-ghouls away from her.

[xTheHWordx]

@custardaghost well, its a good thing you acted mature about me just asking for respect. and why would you pray if you're an atheist? seriously, give them respect. i respect atheists, muslims, bhuddists, etc. grow up.

[custardaghost]

@xTheHWordx

That you could take the "Dawkins prayer" bit as anything other than a pisstake of your wailing Bronze-Age dribble proves how hopeless you are.

Irony lost on the ignorant.

Anyway, if you hadn't tried to graft your fucked-up "pay for your sins" religion upon this non-Christian girl, none of this row would have happened.

You are a non-stop attention-whore for your sky-daddy, arencha ? And you tell me to grow up! Go work the phones for a rip-off TV evangelist, make yourself feel good

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@custardaghost Everything happens for a reason. Bad things happen to good people. The injury shows gymnastics is a cruel sport. I don't know why anyone would "thumbs up" your comment. It's a pathetic comment from a pathetic and atheist soul trapped in an unfathomable and disbelieving body.

[custardaghost]

@ShawnVikaKomova2012

"Everything happens for a reason"

And that is why you fail

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@custardaghost No, I don't fail =D

[Ilikemustard]

@whitneyjordyn08

God doesn't exist.

[MrAhAty]

@Ilikemustard amen! 

[ForzaAquila]

@Ilikemustard this is an opinion not a fact so put In my opinion before your phrase boy.

[Ilikemustard]

@ForzaAquila

Yeah, just like it's an "opinion" that leprechauns don't exist.

[ForzaAquila]

@Ilikemustard it has been studied that leprechauns are biologically impossible to exist. Not the goldigging tale version of it but the actual stature while still being a human and having all the physical traits that it has. Science can prove this because leprechauns are limited to within our hemisphere. We can perfectionize science when it has been limited to our sphere. However god is omnipotent, motor of the universe, science cannot yet prove that it doesn't exist.

[Ilikemustard]

@ForzaAquila

Leprechauns are limited to our hemisphere? And exactly which hemisphere are you talking about, genius, the north or the south?

'Perfectionize'? I'm sorry, but if you want your argument to be taken seriously, it helps if you don't make up words.

[ForzaAquila]

@Ilikemustard northern hemisphere...ireland's in the north hemisphere..

kind of funny how a word that doesn't exist is on the merriam-webster dictionary.

[Ilikemustard]

@ForzaAquila

Who says Leprechauns are limited to the northern hemisphere? Do you have scientific evidence of this? You can't prove they don't exist in the southern hemisphere, can you? (that was a joke about the null hypothesis, though obviously you're not going to get it)

Maybe if you weren't too lazy or dense to actually look at the merriam webster page you would have read that it's an archaic definition. Notice how NONE of the other dictionary websites have it?

[ForzaAquila]

@Ilikemustard Read my comment again. I said science has the evidence that leprechauns DO NOT exist. Learn to comprehend. Exactly it's an archaic definition, does that mean the word "perfectionize" does not exist and that i invented it?? NO.

[ParanoidAndroidDA]

@whitneyjordyn08 One of the coaches or someone was filming at the time but when they realised that they had footage of her accident they deleted it. Isn't she doing paralympic table tennis now or something like that?

[mkkolasa97]

so sad she is paralized now :(

[RadioCambodia]

she is playing ping pong now, she will be in the 2008 paralympics representing China

[JazziRokinGirl]

well i;ve heard that some people overcome handicaps, i hope she does, i hate watching things like this being a gymnast myself

=)

[triplestep1829]

hahaha, good call! lol

[lovkoreandrama]

i meant for she to continue using the optimistic attitude/personality she has to support her through her life..

[heymanhaha]

why is she handicapped now?

[Gracie76028]

cause she had a really bad fall!!!!!!!!!

from vault!

does anybody have a vid of her doing that???

[metabolife]

she broke the lower part of her neck... paralyzed now

[lovkoreandrama]

SHE is AMAZING , i really hope she gets better!! Keep it up Sans Lan!!

[NonMatchingUnderwear]

look for the 2000 update on injury.

she will be carrying the torch at the beijing games this year

[nevertrustCHEEZ]

she PWNED that competition

[hiv2]

Wow