“Thank you all for the love you are giving us in these difficult days, we are here in Germany to give it to Lorenzo. The situation is stable, but now a new and delicate phase awaits us,” wrote Gloria Bonicelli on July 28 in an Instagram post where she could be seen holding his hand fitted with an IV cannula. She was updating on her brother’s condition, a gymnastics star who had almost broken his neck at the FISU 2025 World University Games in the Rhine-Ruhr region.

During his third apparatus, the still rings, Lorenzo Bonicelli attempted a high-difficulty dismount, the triple back. He under-rotated and landed directly on his neck. He was then rushed to the University Hospital in Essen, where he underwent emergency surgery and spent several days in a medically induced coma. Now, his girlfr

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