Clara Hughes a Canadian cyclist in the summer games and speedskating in the Winter Olympics and has picked up 6 medals in 6 Olympics (3 summers 1996, 2000, and 2012) (3 winters 2002,2006, and 2010).
She did not pickup a medal in these Olympics as she finished in the middle of the pack in the road race (32Nd) and fell a minute short of a medal in the time trails and finished 5th. Then she went on a Toronto Radio Station and said that she had nasty in cycling over the last few years but on the Victoria Day weekend and more correctly May 21st she fell off her bike in a race in Gatineau, Quebec and that she had broken her back and fractured vertebrae and had been keeping it a secret for the past two month. She stated even though was had a broken back and fractured vertebrae she did not stop training and the reason why was because these thinks are apart of the sport and u just need to pull through it and one of the host said "players in baseball go on the DL for hangnails and u kept going with a broken back".
It is amazing that the almost 40-year-old was able to put medical risks aside and put forth a couple of great performances in her last Olympic games and her most likely her last competition of her career.
She will go down as one of the greatest Canadian Olympians in history
Tom Mehegan
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