Australian surfer Owen Wright suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2015 after a training wipeout, but all that was forgotten on Tuesday as he crowned his remarkable comeback with an Olympic bronze medal.
The affable Aussie, who suffered from memory loss and struggled to learn to walk again after a bleeding on the brain, clutched his medal as he recalled how he overcame the darkest of moments."I didn't count myself out. I did imagine it, and that's probably why I'm here. I visualised myself with a medal around my neck. I didn't know how it was going to happen, but I wanted it to happen so bad," he told reporters, the bronze medal finally around his neck.
"It was intense, it was really intense. I felt like I had the whole country there supporting me, and it was tough out there, it was coming down to the last 10 or 20 seconds," the 31-year-old said. "You could see how much passion and pride and how much it meant to them, and that's the moment it changed for all of us ... it ignited what that Olympic dream means for us all."
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