ZHANGJIAKOU, China—Japanese snowboarder Rina Yoshika suffered a heavy fall in training on the slopestyle course at the Genting Snow Park on Thursday and will return home, a Team Japan spokesperson said in a statement.
Yoshika crash-landed from one of the jumps during a practice run and lay motionless before a medical team rushed to help. She cried out in pain when they tried to move her.
![Rina Yoshika of Japan receives medical attention after falling during training in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 03, 2022. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F02%2F03%2FRina-Yoshika--600x382.jpg&w=1200&q=75)
It took almost 20 minutes for Yoshika, wearing training bib number 24, to be moved from the course on a stretcher and taken away in an ambulance.
Later on Thursday, the Japan Olympic Committee released a statement that said Yoshika had suffered an injury and would withdraw from both slopestyle and big air events, and return to Japan after receiving the necessary medical care in China.