Jeremy Lusk still in critical condition as a result of FMX accident in Costa Rica
February 10th, 2009 | by admin |Motorcyclist Jeremy Lusk remained in intensive care Sunday night after a spectacular accident in the X-Knights competition Saturday in the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa.
Some 22,000 persons watched at the international free style motorcycle competition as one of Lusk’s airborne tricks went awry. Lusk lost control of his motorcycle in the air as he attempted to jump a ramp. The cyclist’s body flipped backwards and he hit the dirt mound becoming unconscious.
The Cruz Roja came to Lusk’s aid, and he went by ambulance to Hospital Calderón Guardia. Doctors are waiting for the swelling in Lusk’s brain to go down, according to the cyclist’s official Web site.
Lusk, 23, is an American freestyle motorcyclist. In 2008, he won both a gold and silver medal in the X Games, in Los Angles, California.
The spokeswoman of X-Knights, Jennifer Hidalgo, said that doctors at Calderón Guardia performed surgery in order to drain the fluid between Lusk’s brain and skull.
Ms. Hidalgo said that now doctors must wait 24 hours in order to know his medical condition.
Despite the accident, the games continued. For three consecutive years the Spanish motorcyclist Danni Torres has been the champion of the X-Knights Freestyle.
In the third and last competition, once again Torres, the favorite, came out victorious defeating the Frenchman Charles Pages and the Japanese Eigo Sato.
The freestyle, X-Knights, is a motorcycle competition, where motorcyclists show their tricks in the air, in three “heats” or rounds. In each phase of the competition, the players have 2 minutes to demonstrate their style, and the players with the best score go to the next heat.
By the second heat there are only six remaining competitors. In the last heat, only the three top motorcyclists remained.
Pages got second place, while Sato got third.
Costa Rica is the first competition of the 2009 freestyle season. In the next months, the competition will move to other countries.
