Josh Young's life changed forever when a mountain bike accident left him a paraplegic in 2017. Now he's competing on the world stage.
"I came off over a jump and just unfortunately landed in such a way that I broke my T12 vertebra and suffered a spinal cord injury," he said.At the time, his wife was pregnant with their first child, and the accident turned their lives upside down.
He will join athletes from across the world for a chance at being crowned the fittest person on earth. In 2022, he went to the WheelWOD Games and won silver, before taking a year off to spend time with family."Going through the sort of trauma that I went through with my accident and the rehab and everything it would put a really nice ribbon on the last seven years of my life."Former Wallabies player Greg Shambrook, 73, trains at the same gym and will also compete in the Games.
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