Gymnast pledges to fight remaining cases till the end
NEW YORK - Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, who was paralyzed in an accident at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York, said she will not drop any more cases in her fight to protect her legal rights.
Sang, wearing a luminous yellow Olympic team shirt, made the statement at a news conference at the offices of Hai Ming Law Firm in New York on Tuesday afternoon. Rumors had circulated that Sang might drop all her cases after her lawyer Hai Ming had withdrawn several in recent weeks.
In late April, Hai filed lawsuits at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against three individuals and five institutions, seeking a total of $1.8 billion in compensation. The defendants include media mogul Ted Turner, who created the Goodwill Games, the US Gymnastics Federation, the former AOL Time Warner Inc, TIG Insurance Co and Xie Xiaohong and Liu Guosheng, two legal guardians appointed after the accident.
