Kurtis Marschall’s description of the injury that almost ruined his Olympic hopes is not for the squeamish.
Kurtis Marschall looked down at his foot and it was pointing the wrong way. Lying on the pole vault mat after a jump at the national athletics championships in Adelaide in April, he knocked the dislocated ankle back into shape.
“The adrenalin covered up the pain but I could tell as soon as I looked at it that the ankle wasn’t where it was supposed to be. Then it was, ‘oh gosh this is bad’. “So we got that cut out and tried to train through with just a little bandage over the top of it, because, usually, you skin graft that stuff and get fat tissue and stem cells and put all that in. But we didn’t have time for that, didn’t have time for surgery.“It’s pretty ridiculous but we are in the position we are because of the enormous support I have had.”A necrotic wound is a black mass of dead tissue that had to be excavated. Marschall kept training, determined to make the Olympics.
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