19-12-2016 22:33 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Swedish skier Holmlund in coma after training crash

ROME (Reuters) - Olympic cross-country skiing bronze medallist Anna Holmlund of Sweden was put in a medically-induced coma after sustaining a head injury in a training accident in Italy, Scandinavian media reported on Monday. According to the Expressen newspaper, the 29-year-old crashed while training in Bolzano ahead of Tuesday's FIS World Cup competition in Innichen in northern Italy. "It has been established she has some small bleeding on the brain and she was operated on," Swedish cross-coun
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