Skip struggled to see any point in carrying on: his dream of becoming a gymnastic champion had been cruelly snatched away when doctors told him he would never walk again. "Doctors told me they’d seen this injury time and time again, and that people just don’t recover from it," says Skip. After six months, Skip had lost several stone and threw himself back into gymnastics, training with his coach almost every day. Bruce had seriously damaged the sacral nerve in his back and been told he’d never kick again, and that his future ability to walk unaided was in doubt. Eighteen months after his accident, he competed at the English Sports Acrobatics Championship, and won a gold medal, astonishing doctors around the world.

Source: Daily Mirror June 10, 2018 06:00 UTC