Kimberly2004.com *

The US Olympic hopeful athlete could make no statement. She was comatose and near death from head injury/near drowning.

The coach from the New Zealand Olympic Sailing Team swore to police that the US athlete had sailed into the back left side of his powerboat - causing her own catastrophic injury.

But the coach's statement is contradicted by evidence which demonstrates that the powerboat ran over the windsurfing athlete while she was stopped in the water.

The Greek police simply reported that the accident was the fault of the athlete - omitting the evidence seen below. The accident happened shortly before the 2004 Athens Olympics.

New Zealand Olympic Sailing Team Powerboat (YNZ)

The Greek report blames the accident on the US athlete - while omitting evidence seen on the right of this page including:

1. that the athlete's injuries included blunt force trauma to the back of her skull, 12 fractured teeth, and fractured jaw, and

2. that damage to the athlete's equipment is limited to the middle of her windsurfing board.

When US athlete Kim Birkenfeld woke from coma a month after the accident, she found herself back in the US, but she was unable to speak or walk. Shortly thereafter, in spite of head-injury, she was prescribed narcotics.

In January 2010, Birkenfeld took herself off all narcotic-based prescriptions. Soon after, she found the strength to publish this website.

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In August 2004, with her thinking distorted by prescribed narcotics, Birkenfeld was advised to file proceedings in New Zealand. Her NZ attorney told her it was an admiralty proceeding.

After six years of unremitting motions and pre-trial hearings, New Zealand courts have effectively said the former US athlete does not have right to know how the accident happened that left her crippled for life. There has never been a determination on the merits.

Hearing of the US athlete's appeal is scheduled for March 2, 2011 at 10 AM in the Court of Appeal, Wellington, New Zealand.

Birkenfeld v Bruce Anthony Kendall and Yachting New Zealand Inc. CA 793/2009

The former US Sailing Team athlete resides in Miami - homebound due to severe disabilities resulting from the 2002 Olympic Test Event accident.

Says Birkenfeld: "God Bless Nodar Kumaritashvili.

When the Olympic movement immediately blamed the luge accident on the athlete, I became angry.

I found inspiration to fight back so the voiceless athlete's side of story is heard - this time."

Wellington, New Zealand, November 2008

Former US Olympic hopeful Kim Birkenfeld is unable to walk ten feet without assistance.

* In May 2002, Kimberly2004.com was originally launched as a very different site - it was to be a fundraising site for US Sailing Team athlete Kim Birkenfeld's Athens 2004 Olympic Campaign.

US athlete: Evidence shows stopped in the water

xEvidence omitted from the police report:

1. US athlete: blunt-force trauma to back of skull (depressed skull fracture)

2. US athlete's Olympic windsurfing board is damaged only in the middle