Lester now conscious after crash
Two days after a crash left her unconscious, cyclist Keiana Lester is now stable and communicating with family, friends and well wishers, new T&T Cycling Federation's Public Relations Officer Roxanne Ramnath said yesterday.
The 19-year old cyclist who is carded to go to training at the World Cycling Centre in Switzerland in April next year with her compatriot Kollyn St George, was on Sunday transferred to a ward at the San Fernando General Hospital, following a surgery on her hip. On Saturday Lester was hit by a car while training with the Rigtech Sonics Cycle Club in Erin ahead of her training stint in Switzerland.
Yesterday she was still sporting a neck brace with pins installed at her legs to support her hip. The accident has since revived calls for a special lane for cyclists to train on the nation's road ways.
Ramnath described the accident as unfortunate, saying all is being done to assist the cyclist with her recovery. Lester, a two-time Pan American gold medallist has been touted as one of T&T's bright prospects in the sprints, having shown explosive speed in the sprints events for the past years.
Her scheduled training stint in Switzerland came via an invitation from the world governing body for the sport- UCI, which expressed satisfaction with her ability, as well as that of St George. As such the stint is geared towards assisting their development in the future.
guardian