Gold medallist Rachel Morris is a doubt for London 2012 after she was involved in a collision with a car.
Gold medallist Morris may miss out on Paralympics in London
Paralympic cycling gold medallist Rachel Morris is a doubt for London 2012 after she was involved in a collision with a car.
Morris suffered whiplash and shoulder injuries last week.
The 33-year-old is now facing a race against time to be on the start line for the time trial and road race in London in August.
She was six minutes into a time trial near her home town of Guildford, Surrey, last week when the accident happened, British Cycling said.
Morris said: "This has totally screwed me up. I feel like everything I've worked for has been taken away.
"I can't imagine not being there, but I know how long it has taken me to recover from this type of injury before, and it was longer than I now have before the Games.''
Pain
Morris has a condition called reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) which involves a malfunction of the nervous system that causes extreme pain and related sensory abnormalities.
When she injures herself, her body reacts in an abnormal way and destroys itself which has resulted in her having to have her legs amputated.
Recalling coming off her bike, she said: "The bike went up into the air. I remember looking across and I was aware that I was at the same height as the passengers in a car passing in the outside lane.''
