mo4ch:>‘I thought I hyperextended my knees until I looked down': US gymnast on career-ending injury | Mo4ch News

US gymnast Samantha Cerio, who broke both legs during a local event in Louisiana, has opened up about her career-ending injury, revealing that she didn’t initially realize what had happened.Appearing on NBC’s Today Show, the 22-year-old Cerio said that she didn’t understand how serious her injury was until she looked down and saw that her knees had been dislocated.READ MORE: ‘My pain is not your entertainment’: US gymnast addresses fans who shared video of horrible injury“When I had landed that one, I felt like something was a little wrong, and I thought I had just hyperextended my knees until I looked down and that wasn’t the case,” she said.“When I saw what had happened, that’s when the pain kind of started to set in, and it got worse. It was a big, ‘Oh shoot, what just happened?’”Also on rt.comUS gymnast breaks both legs in career-ending accident (GRAPHIC VIDEO)Cerio was seriously injured in April during a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Baton Rouge Regional event i…