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SA's Riese breaks her leg
Athens - Paralympic table tennis player Rosabelle Riese, 49, broke her left leg in a fall while getting onto the athlete's bus outside the Olympic Stadium on Monday night.
The Cape Town wheelchair player, who has partnered Alet Moll in doubles play since the start of the Athens Paralympics on Saturday, was returning to the Athletes' Village with team-mates who had been watching athletics, when the accident occurred.
"She was taken to hospital, her whole leg is in plaster and she is obviously out for the rest of the competition," said team media manager Bronwyn Badenhorst.
"Chances are that she'll be spending a couple of days in hospital and will be sent home when she feels comfortable enough."
Riese, whose disability is polio in her lower limbs and who is a data auditor in Cape Town, competed in air pistol shooting in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where she won the bronze medal. Then she took to table tennis "because I love it" and made the singles quarter-finals at Sydney 2000.
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