Finnish Olympian Sanni Hakala Paralyzed from Chest Down After Hockey Game Collision

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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.

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