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Russia's glamorous Olympic skier Maria paralysed after fall

New Delhi: Olympic freestyle skier and Russian pin-up girl Maria Komissarova has no feeling from the waist down after breaking and dislocating her spine during training in Sochi.The skicross racer was taken to a hospital



Posting on social networking from her hospital bed following a six-and-a-half operation, Komissarova said she is currently paralysed from the waist down. ‘I do not feel my body lower than my belly button,' she wrote. ‘But I am strong and I know that someday I will definitely be on my feet again.'