A terrible accident at the Disney on I show in Minneapolis is making National headlines the skater at the center of it is Anastasia Olsen a prominent skater from Novi Olsen is now in the hospital recovering after a terrible fall on the ice that story tops of News at 10 good
Evening I’m Kimberly Gil I’m Devon Skil and parents and children at the show say Olsson was portraying Bell from Beauty and the Beast when she went into a lift and either was dropped or fell on the ice hitting her head and going into seizure try to imagine the scene Mara McDonald
Live downtown tonight Mara Metro Detroit is a very tight skating Community it sure does Devon and everybody has heard about the accident they feel terrible about it I can tell you after speaking with her former partner he thinks no question she’s going to come out of this and she’s
Going to get back on the ice take a look parents and kids flock to the Target Center in Minneapolis over the weekend to see the show this happened about 40 minutes into the show within probably I I want to say 20 or 30 seconds they had made an announcement that they were
Going to interrupt the show and everything had gone to like really dark lighting Olson is well known in metro Detroit her Banner still hangs in the ice cube in an arbor where she and partner Jordan Cowen trained and went on to earn a silver medal at the US national figure skating championship in
2009 in ice dancing when we started skating together we were both still in high school so we would take half classes and then um after lunch we’d go to the ice rink and train until the afternoon after her competitive career had ended she excelled at coaching young skaters the
Disney on Ice show was a natural extension of her talents what doesn’t surprise me at all is that she stuck to skating she was portraying Belle in the show and went into what Witnesses describe as a shaky lift and then fell to the ice hitting her head and then
Going into seizures the show put up a tent around her while they got her medical help her injuries are described as serious but she’s stable I know for a fact that she’s a skater through and through that she’s going to get back on the ice um you know someday soon I know that
She’s be here live the Disney on Ice show was supposed to come to Metro Detroit as its next stop I highly doubt she’s going to be able to portray Bell in that performance I will tell you this when we were at the Ice Cube tonight we
Were speaking to one of the long time rink managers there and he said that Anastasia and Jordan were always a joy to have on the ice when they skated there we’re live downtown tonight I’m Mara McDonald local four you’re certainly pulling for her tonight all right Mara
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