A college gymnast who broke both her legs during a floor routine is urging people to stop sharing vi

August 13, 2024

Samantha Cerio, a 22-year-old aerospace engineering student who announced on Sunday that her gymnastics career was over, told people on Twitter: "My pain is not your entertainment."

"Those of you posting and tagging me in the video of my injury, I am asking you to please stop," Cerio tweeted on Wednesday, before putting her account on private, according to The Washington Post . "Going through the pain and seeing my knees bent unnaturally in real life was horrible enough, but to continue to see it from videos/pictures because some people feel entitled to repost it is not okay."

Cerio was trying to perform a blind landing on a tumbling pass at an NCAA regional competition on April 5 when the injury occurred.

She fell during the landing, dislocating both of her knees and tearing multiple ligaments in her legs.

According to Auburn , Cerio has a job lined up at Boeing in Seattle, where she will work on rockets as a structural design analysis engineer.

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