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TIL Laurel Hubbard pleaded guilty to careless driving causing injury after an incident in 2018 which left a driver with severe spinal injuries. Hubbard was discharged without conviction.The judge ordered that Hubbard's name be suppressed to avoid publicity as she trained for the Olympics.

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