| lucia art. (Captured from TMJ4, Wisconsin, USA) |
An American teenage schoolgirl who miraculously survived being attacked by a shark 20 months before the competition has won the swimming championship after a grueling rehabilitation.
Foreign media such as Britain’s Daily Star and Wisconsin’s TMJ4 media reported on Lucy Art (17), who won the Wisconsin under-24 state swimming championships on 28.
Previously, in March 2021, 20 months before entering the competition, Lucy was playing in the waters of Florida, USA with her cousins.
Then he felt something hit his leg and thought it was his cousin playing with him.
At that moment, a shark jumped out of the water, and Lucy later recognized it as a shark. In an instant, the shark bit off Lucy’s right wrist.
Lucy was covered in blood, but managed to drive it off by calmly poking the shark in the mouth with her left hand. While this shark is not known to be particularly aggressive towards humans, Lucy’s condition after she landed was critical.
A main artery and four tendons in his wrist had been severed, and shark bite marks were also present on his leg. Luckily, a nearby doctor came running and treated Lucy’s wound first.
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| (Captured from TMJ4, Wisconsin, USA) |
Lucy was then loaded into an ambulance and taken to hospital. “I remember being afraid of losing my hand in the ambulance,” Lucy recalls.
After the tear was sealed, Lucy began physical therapy and long-term rehabilitation to get her hand moving again. In particular, I focused on stretching the tendons in my right wrist.
As a result, Lucy finally returned safely as a swimmer this past August. In the heats last November you set a new personal best of 23.45 seconds.
Furthermore, in the final, he made a further 0.08 second shortening to win the championship with a record 23.37 seconds, and was able to come from behind.
“I thought my hands would never work like they used to,” Lucy said in an interview after winning.
He showed a silver lining, saying, “But looking back on it, the shark attack motivated me to want to swim better and get better.”
At the same time, he said, “After that, I only went to the sea once. I visited the same place, but it was really difficult. “My wrist condition is worse than before the raid, but I’m going to focus on the be active in the short-distance butterfly category rather than short-distance freestyle in the future.”
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| (Captured from TMJ4, Wisconsin, USA) |
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