Three days after posting a image of herself in a hospital room together with her arm in a sling, Australian swimmer Meg Harris has shared extra particulars in regards to the nature of her damage.
“I was riding to the beach with my roommates on a scooter and my front wheel hit a rock. I went over the handlebars and unfortunately broke my arm,” Harris mentioned in a assertion. “I am currently working on a plan with my coach that is going to work best for me going forward into 2022.”
Harris is way from the primary particular person, or elite swimmer, to have injured themselves whereas driving a scooter. Recently, Bobby Finke missed the 2019 World University Games as the results of a scooter damage earlier than coming again to win gold within the 800 and 1500 free on the Tokyo Olympics. Jack Hoagland, the defending ACC Swimmer of the Championships, additionally injured his wrist in a scooter accident late final 12 months.
Perhaps probably the most notorious scooter damage involving swimmers got here in 2011, the place a scooter damage damage each Ryan Lochte and Marco Loughran.
Various research have come out displaying the dangers of utilizing scooters, particularly electrical scooters. One printed in February 2021 within the American Journal of Emergency Medicine based mostly on knowledge from an Austin, Texas hospital discovered that electrical scooters produced an damage price of 180 accidents/million car miles traveled. That’s as in comparison with about 1 damage/million car miles traveled in motor automobiles.
In her Olympic debut in Tokyo, Harris swam the second leg on the Australian girls’s 4×100m free relay. She break up 53.09 as a part of a gold medal and World Record-setting efficiency for the relay.
Harris additionally earned bronze as a prelims swimmer on the Aussie girls’s 4x200m freestyle relay.
Leading as much as Tokyo, Harris had been coaching at St. Peters Western below Coach Dean Boxall however, she has since moved to Marion and is now below Kyle Chalmers’ coach Peter Bishop.