Caroline Andersson blank after the crash: "No memories for five days"

The images from the crash are difficult to take in and it has been worrying.

- They have wondered if I am alive, says Caroline Andersson about the reactions.

Andersson is admitted and is going to rehab after breaking his left collarbone, breaking his pelvis, suffering two facial fractures and four minor brain bleeds.

It sounds bad about the brain bleeds?

- The brain has to learn to take new neural pathways and new paths and it will hopefully heal, but it is here and now a rather severe injury, says Andersson.

In total, Andersson sleeps 16 hours per day, divided into twelve hours during the night and four hours per day.

Determined to get back to the highest level

She was in the hospital in Montreal until a few days ago but is back in Sweden - and aiming to get back to the highest level.

- Since I don't remember the crash, it's an advantage. As silly as it sounds, it has had the opposite effect. If you can crash so badly and still come back, I'll probably manage quite well, thinks Andersson, who is active in a dangerous sport with several deaths per year and a number of serious injuries.

- You can't be afraid, but it can go very wrong.

As I said, she has no memories of the crash, but a theory.

- If you ride with your own front wheel into another cyclist's rear wheel, you tend to lose your balance, but that is pure guesswork. I kind of don't know what has happened.

She has not looked at the pictures from the crash.

- At some point in the future I will probably have to look at the pictures - regardless of whether I want to or not, but right now it is a fresh and painful memory, even if it is not really a memory, says Andersson.