04-07-2012, 04:17 PM
Since we have a few people on here into extreme sports and whatnot, I thought I'd post this up.
Just over 5 years ago on the Dew Tour, Stephen Murray (a bmx rider) was going for gold in his final run, and had a really bad crash attempting a double backflip. He'd done them many times before in competition, but half way around the second rotation he came off, landing on his neck, paralyising him from the neck down. Stephen is from the UK and is someone that I grew up riding with (well, at the same tracks/competitions) as I'm sure he did with Dum-Dum, so seeing this hit home quite hard, but also across the entire bmx community and other sports involved in the X-Games and Gravity games.
I thought some of you might be interested in watching this interview with him from a week or so ago.
http://bmxtalk.com/blog/stephen-murray-f...rview.html
Stay Strong.
Just over 5 years ago on the Dew Tour, Stephen Murray (a bmx rider) was going for gold in his final run, and had a really bad crash attempting a double backflip. He'd done them many times before in competition, but half way around the second rotation he came off, landing on his neck, paralyising him from the neck down. Stephen is from the UK and is someone that I grew up riding with (well, at the same tracks/competitions) as I'm sure he did with Dum-Dum, so seeing this hit home quite hard, but also across the entire bmx community and other sports involved in the X-Games and Gravity games.
I thought some of you might be interested in watching this interview with him from a week or so ago.
http://bmxtalk.com/blog/stephen-murray-f...rview.html
Stay Strong.