The three-time Olympian suffered 19 fractures in a horror training accident, but three months later he’s back – and aiming for a Games gold medal in Paris.
Shane Rose can’t describe what it feels like when a 550-kilogram horse falls on you and, in one crunching moment, breaks bones in 19 different places in your body.
Australian Olympic equestrian star Shane Rose in hospital after fracturing his pelvis and multiple other bones.Four months out from the Paris Olympics, the accident threw Rose’s ambitions of competing at a fourth Games into severe doubt. He is one of Australia’s leading riders and had already qualified for selection a few days earlier, but Rose was now flat on his back in a hospital bed. And suffering.
“They would say, ‘Go until is seven out of 10’. And I would go to what I consider seven out of 10 and they’re going, ‘Whoa, you can’t do that much,’ ” he said. “I am just like, ‘Well you said to go to seven, and I am not there yet’.“I guess I do have a pretty good pain tolerance. One time, I broke my leg and I didn’t know for a week, because I had done it in a stupid way and my wife was cranky with me.
“But it was OK and we kept progressing, and pretty much I haven’t looked back from then. I have a bit of a limp, but riding, you wouldn’t know I’d had an accident. I feel 100 per cent on the horse.”Chris Hopkins It would be Rose’s fourth Olympics, but he was also ruled out of two Games after arriving – in 1996 and 2012 – due to injuries to his horses.Chris Hopkins
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