Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak of Poland was out of danger in hospital yesterday after sustaining injuries in a car crash at the weekend in which her brother was killed, her doctor said.
“We have observed a notable improvement in her condition,” said Dr Miroslaw Zabek on news television station TVN24.
“Her eyesight has improved; we note no particular effects from the blows to the head and back,” which Jedrzejczak sustained on Saturday, when the car she was driving with her 19-year-old brother as a passenger crashed into a tree near the town of Plonsk, 70km northwest of Warsaw, said Zabek.
The doctor also said that Jedrzejczak's “mental condition” had improved.
The 21-year-old, who won the 200m butterfly title at the Athens Olympics last year and broke her own world record on her way to the world title in Montreal in July, was in a state of shock when hospitalised on Saturday.
Jedrzejczak's coach Pawel Slonimski said that the Olympic champion kept repeating: “I'll never drive again, I've killed my brother.”
But yesterday, he said she would probably “pull through mentally” and resume her sports career.
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