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A German recovers from fatal injuries after a sudden he has performed horribly wrong in front of a live television audience of millions.
Samuel Koch 23, is suffering in the German hospital with a broken neck and several blood clot near his brain, according to Walter Kehr, the spokesman of the ZDF network, which will air the program Wetten, Dass and I bet than.
Koch is now in stable condition, according to the Associated Press, but do not yet know if he will be paralyzed from his injuries.
Koch was trying to catapult into a somersault over a car driven by his father, he was supposed to land on his feet but ended lower face and motionless, shocking the live audience of 4000 and the millions of viewers at home Koch wore shoes that were to help him jump like a kangeroo at the waterfall, according to Kehr.
We do not know what happened, Kehr told ABC News During his somersault, he must have hit the car with his head because he had an emergency landing without any protection.
While Koch was wearing a helmet at the waterfall, the video of the accident shows her body going soft in the air and he lands on his stomach, without any attempt to double the fall.
We are not quite sure he was unconscious when he landed, said Kehr.
Before the accident, Koch had jumped successfully on two cars, he had failed a third test, but was not injured, Kehr said Koch had set the waterfall itself and tried hundreds of times without problems up 'that taping of Saturday night.
This is the most serious injury in the history of 29 years of the show, said Kehr, who recalled that some years ago, a competitor broke his leg on the program.
At present, we hope it is because there are signs that he can do it, so we hope it will be OK, said Kehr We are hopeful he will recover and be as normal as it was before the accident.
The sight of the premise is based on the participants outrageous acrobatics while a panel of celebrities bet that they will succeed.
US pop star Justin Bieber was scheduled to appear on the program the night Koch was injured and tweeted about the accident.
I just want to let my people in Germany know I won t be Wetten Dass tonight as an accident has taken place and we all do not think it is good to continue Please pray for Samuel Koch family we wait and hope for his health and safety, Bieber tweeted.
It was not immediately clear if Bieber witnessed the accident first hand Bieber should postpone its performance on a future episode of Wetten, Dass.
Germany I'm sorry we could not t perform tonight but some things are more important than putting on a show, we'll be back, I promise u Thank you, Bieber wrote in a subsequent tweet.
Kehr said that if the next episode is scheduled to tape in February in Halle, Germany, Koch incident will be reviewed and the show is unlikely to continue as it is.
So we will look at what we can do in the beginning, when people give us proposals for their bet, we must consider more carefully whether there are dangers, he said.
The show will never be as it was before because you can lose your bet but you can not lose your sanity, said Kehr waterfalls as Koch's that may have been too risky.
The program host, Thomas Gottschalk, said a German local newspapers that pressure ratings have led to the accident, according to the Associated Press.
I had to reject accusations we included an irresponsible shot in the show because of competitive pressures, said Gottschalk We always had risky stunts - from motorcycles to stunts on jumps It is part of the show, of course, we have to look whether it can continue like this.
Previous stunts on the show included a man driving a truck with four-wheel drive on eggs without breaking them and another man who tore ten telephone books outside Berlin in less than three minutes.
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