Injured eventer improving after Olympic fall

Hawley Bennett-Awad too Gin & Juice at the offset Equus caballus inspection. © Cealey Tetley

The status of Canadian passenger Hawley Bennett-Awad, who was thrown from Gin & Juice during the cross-country stage of the Olympic eventing contest at Greenwich Park on Monday, is improving.

Bennett-Awad savage at the 3rd combat too suffered a concussion, which is improving, too a stable sacral fracture, according to Equine Canada president Michael Gallagher.

A sacral fracture is a interruption inward the sacrum, a large, triangular os at the base of operations of the spine.

Bennett-Awad was taken to the Royal London Hospital by ambulance too admitted for observation too hurting management.

“We volition proceed to monitor her progress,” Gallagher said.

» Individual results

» Team results

 

 

Bagikan Artikel ini