Amidst all of the hoopla surrounding our Winter Olympic athletes and their successes, a bit of very unfortunate news about a top Canadian athlete filtered out on Thursday morning.
Kara Lang's bid to return to the women's national team after retiring three years ago has been thrown into question after, in her words, her knee "literally exploded" just two days after being cleared to fully train with the team. While some initial reports are suggesting this officially ends her comeback bid... well, we should know by now to never say never as it relates to Lang.
The situation as it stands, in her words:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>2 days after being cleared to train w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CanWNT&src=hash">#CanWNT</a> my knee literally exploded yesterday. I've torn just about everything you can in a knee.</p>— Kara Lang (@Kara_Lang) <a href="
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Thank U to everyone who's been there for me along this crazy trip. Staying positive b/c I have the best support system anyone could ask for.</p>— Kara Lang (@Kara_Lang) <a href="
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Somehow I WILL make some sweet lemonade out of these very shitty lemons.</p>— Kara Lang (@Kara_Lang) <a href="
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Rather than wildly speculate about whether this is it for Lang, or about how John Herdman will need to adjust his plans for the 2015 Women's World Cup, let's instead just use this space -- in the immediate aftermath of the news -- to congratulate Lang on coming this far, and wish her the best in whatever comes next for her.
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