Finnish hockey star and Olympian Sanni Hakala now says she was paralyzed from the chest down after a collision on the ice during a game.
In an Instagram post on Thursday, the hockey star also reported reduced functions in her arms and hands after a collision on the ice during last week’s Swedish Women’s Hockey League game, according to Fox News.
“It is still hard to understand what has happened,” Hakala said in a statement Thursday on Instagram. “Not only that I am forced to stop playing hockey … but that I may be forced to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.”
At the start of the game against Djurgården, Hakala collided with the goalpost. She was taken off the ice on a stretcher.
She was taken to a hospital and underwent surgery on her neck, but it does not appear that the surgery succeeded.
“It is still hard to understand what has happened, that…
