28-year old Kevin Ogar has been paralyzed after a freak accident at the 2014 OC Throwdown . The CrossFit community isn’t letting him go through the struggle alone.
On Jan. 12, Kevin Ogar severed his spine during a freak accident at a fitness competition in Orange County, Calif.
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The 28-year old is an active member and coach in the Colorado CrossFit community with more than three years of experience.
According to a blog post on The Fittest Games, Kevin "missed a snatch at the 2014 OC Throwdown [which] came down on his back, severing his spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed from the T-11 vertebra down."
Since the accident he has undergone two surgeries.
As Kevin is currently without health insurance, the community has started to collect funds to help him. So far they have raised over $200,000 through donations, the sale of t-shirts and by holding an "Ogar WOD" at gyms throughout the country.
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A WOD is a "Workout of the Day." CrossFit posts a workout for each day that the community does either alone or at their gyms.