He retired Brad Spence, Canadian slalom skier with a big heart

The 30 year old Canadian Brad Spence of Calgary, famous for his attention to the sick and more needy, and himself a victim of a serious injury to his right leg that threatened to be amputated, he announced his retirement from racing.

Thursday 7 August 2014 5 minutes reading time

Spence, born April 19, 1984, was one of the most promising litter of Canadian sprinters at the beginning of the 2000s so as to debut in the World Cup in 18 years, in the super-G in Lake Louise 1st December 2002 and to finish fourth in super-G at the World Juniors in Maribor in 2004. Bormio But in 2005 he fell and fractured tibia and fibula of his right leg and broke the anterior cruciate ligament and medial aspect of the knee. It ' was on the verge of losing his leg but doctors are riuscit to save her but his career seemed over. Instead Spence after three years returned to racing and shortly thereafter reappeared in the World Cup, February 28, 2009 in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora. The thing that prompted him to return was the desire to participate in the Olympics, the dream he had as a child. And he succeeded but had to reinvent specialist technical tests, especially slalom, at the cost of constant pain in his leg at the end of career were 13 interventions that limb, the last in June, an osteotomy of the right leg. His best result is was the twelfth place in the slalom in Kitzbuehel January 24, 2010 which qualified him for the 2010 Vancouver Games in his own country, Canada: not finished the race in five circles between the posts tight finishing out in the first round and was in the forty-giant. Overall, it is placed in the points 20 times, always in slalom, in 54 World Cup races sailed and thanks to these results has also participated in the Games in Sochi last February, when he was disqualified in the second race after finishing first in the twenty-ninth, and World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2011, when he was thirty-eighth always tight between the posts. A guy by the force of will out of the ordinary that it is now forced to say good enough to live the remaining years of his life. It ' also famous for his attention to the most unlucky and are famous two cases in which this attitude is charitable paid off. In 2012, Gage Ferguson, eight year old child afflicted by Asperger syndrome, gave him all his savings and his champion with his sponsors had to take the plane to the child and his family to let them watch the slalom in Wengen in which he was the protagonist. Last winter a cancer patient drew for he wore a helmet that Brad then in Sochi. Now in its projects there the creation of a charity or a foundation to help the most unlucky, unfortunate that he has tried it on their skin. Good luck Brad, slalom skier with a big heart! Source: http://www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/news-multimedia/news/article=canadian-skier-spence-retires-and-announces-plans-for-foundation.html

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