The Brazilian triathlete Luisa Battistachampion in Lima 2019 Pan American Gameshe had a “serious accident” while training on his bicycle and the driver fled without helping him, official sources report.
A vehicle “collided head-on” with Baptista, 29, while he was on a bicycle and “the driver fled without providing help”, in the municipality of São Carlos, in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo, according to a news release note the police of the Sesi São Carlos club.
The triathlete, who represented Brazil at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the last Pan American Games, held this year in Santiago de Chile, is hospitalized and her condition “is delicate”, according to the Brazilian Triathlon Confederation.
“The medical team is waiting for his condition to stabilize before carrying out new tests,” the body said in a statement, reporting that it had contacted the athlete’s friends who “were present at the time of the accident”.
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Pan American champion in 2019, triathlete Luisa Baptista was hit during training and is hospitalized in serious condition
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The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) wished “a full recovery to Baptista, champion in both the individual and mixed categories at Lima 2019, “after the serious accident this Saturday morning”, in a message published on its social networks.
Source: Clarin
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