The two-time world champion and Paris 2024 Olympian has baffled doctors with her ability to compete at the highest level despite managing a significant problem with her airways.
Two-time world surf champion and Paris 2024 Olympian Tyler Wright has revealed how an off-season operation inserted seven screws into her head to ease breathing issues that left her “under-oxygenated and semi-suffocating all the time”.
The 29-year-old told the WSL broadcast on Monday morning that she had undergone extensive testing and scans to diagnose an airways issue she has lived and competed with for much of her life. “So through the off-season I got a maxillary palatal expander in. Essentially I’ve got seven screws in my head, between nine and 17 millimetres and in the off-season I expanded it. Essentially it popped the bone and I got seven millimetres through that.”Wright has long been one of surfing’s most outspoken voices and has been frank in detailing health and well-being issues throughout her career.
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