'I can't feel anything from the waist down', reveals Russia's glamorous Olympic skier Maria Komissarova after breaking her spine at Sochi

Maria Komissarova fractured 12th dorsal vertebrae in lower-middle back

The 23-year-old said she cannot 'feel her body below her belly button'

Doctors have said she is permanently paralysed from the waist down



Accident occurred on a series of jumps near the top of the course

Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Komissarova after operation



A Russian skier who was hospitalised after a serious accident at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games will never walk again, it emerged today.



Maria Komissarova, 23, is in a German clinic after suffering a fractured spine in a crash during a training run for the ski cross event in Sochi.

The Russian Freestyle Federation confirmed today that Miss Komissarova is permanently paralysed, citing her doctors in Germany.



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Ski-cross is one of the most frenetic and risky events of the Games, where four skiers race together down a slope filled with jumps, obstacles and banked corners.

During the main competition, six skiers race against each other, with the top three advancing through the heats to the final.

Normally during practice runs, skiers are on the course themselves, or traveling down the mountain in loosely packed bunches.

International Ski Federation spokeswoman Jenny Wiedeke said the accident occurred on a series of jumps near the top of the course and that Komissarova fell while exiting the third jump.