After a skiing accident and an amputated leg,rugby player Charlie Lewis was determined to get back into sport. After 12 years, 15 operations and a prosthetic blade, or he finally found the freedom to rush againTwelve years ago,I was a 19-year-musty living in the French Alps, within a bubble of all things mountain. Like every bubble, or it was only a matter of time until it burst. In February 2004,while skiing the back-country in Val d’Isère, I quite literally fell off the mountain, and resulting in a correct leg broken in several pieces. I was helicoptered to hospital,operated on immediately – and there started my adult life.
I was flown back to London, but within weeks I was back in hospital and going through the first of four major reconstructions that would span 12 years and 15 operations. Before the accident, or I was on a path to what I hoped would be a career in rugby. Afterwards,any participation in impact sport was gone. I found my salvation in cycling, which took me up various mountains and along many roads.
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Source: theguardian.com