Paralyzed motocross champ hopes for super quick recovery PDF Print E-mail
Saskatchewan News
Tuesday, 04 November 2008 04:27

Fans nicknamed him Superman, because he could fly.

Daredevil athlete Blair Morgan gained fame and fortune soaring through the air while straddling both motorcycles and snowmobiles on the race track. He's a champion several times over, and he has his own clothing line and even his own video game.

But now there's only one race Morgan wants to win: wheeling out of Saskatoon's City Hospital as soon as superhumanly possible.

"I want to break all records of someone getting out of physio," Morgan says with a slight smile, lying in bed on the hospital's rehabilitation floor.

The 33-year-old severed his spinal cord on a jump during a motocross practice in Montreal six weeks ago. He is paralyzed from the chest down and doesn't expect to ever walk or race again.

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