Paralyzed athlete healed accident

A native of the Netherlands, Monique van der Eastern, to train as part of the Paralympic national team, got on his bicycle in an accident. After her athlete whose body was half-paralyzed for 13 years, miraculously rose to his feet.

27-year-old Monique obliged to bike and his illness and miraculous recovery that is not yet able to rationalize science. In 13 years, a girl just started riding a bike professionally, as a result of occupational injury she needed surgery on his ankle banal. Unfortunately, during this operation, the nerve was damaged, resulting in the left leg appeared Monique paralyzed .

Was confined to a wheelchair, the girl decided not to give up. Techniques for Monique produced special bike on manual control, with which it has achieved incredible success in Paralympic sport - on account of its six European championships and three world titles. In 2008, Monique was hit by a car on a bicycle, after which it paralyzed   lower back completely. But in the same year, she brought to the Netherlands two silver medals at the Paralympic Games in Beijing.

Last year, Monique trained hard, typing "the best form of his career", as she thought. Girl ready for action at the Paralympic Games in London, when, during one of the workouts at high speed crashed into another cyclist. The accident resulted in her body had several strong spasm, followed by Monique felt the first one leg and then the other. By the end of the year she had walked alone.

Of course, now that Monique moved from a manual to a traditional bicycle, and soon fell into a professional women's team Rabobank, as part of which it will train with the best cyclists of the country. It is possible that this year we'll see Monique at the London Olympics.

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