{"id":39879,"date":"2026-02-21T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=39879"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:47:03","slug":"olympic-speed-skater-rushed-to-hospital-after-opponents-blade-slices-her-face-in-horror-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=39879","title":{"rendered":"Olympic speed skater rushed to hospital after opponent\u2019s blade slices her face in horror injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>An illegal move during the Women&#8217;s 1500 meter speed skating quarter final almost saw one of the competitors lose an eye last night, in one of the most terrifying injuries of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics so far.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland&#8217;s Kamila Sellier was downed by one of her fellow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/olympics\">Olympians<\/a>, Team USA&#8217;s Kristen Santos-Griswold, whose skate kicked out as she fell during an illegal lane pass, causing her blade to gruesomely slice into Sellier&#8217;s face.This illegal pass caused a crash that also took out Italy&#8217;s 14-time Olympic medallist Arianna Fontana and Santos-Griswald herself, who was penalized for breaking the rules and left out of the short-track\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/us-news\/winter-olympics-alysa-liu-figure-skating-china-674778-20260220\">skating<\/a>\u00a0semifinals.Footage of the incident at Milano Ice Skating Arena left viewers stunned, with cameras clearly capturing the instant Santos-Griswald&#8217;s skate hit the 25-year-old Polish skater in the eye and left her bleeding on the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illegal move during the Women&#8217;s 1500 meter speed skating quarter final almost saw one of the competitors lose an eye last night, in one of the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":173,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39881,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879\/revisions\/39881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}