BOUNCING BACK
You can’t blame Carl Fredrik Hagen for feeling more than a little alarmed in the immediate aftermath of his March training crash – he couldn’t find his arm.
The Israel Start-Up Nation rider had been training around his home in Norway and was nearing the end of a four-hour endurance ride on a road he’d ridden many times before, when he hit a pothole.
“I immediately lost control,” he says.
“There was a barrier at the side of the road and my bike went up it. I went from 40kph to zero in one second.”
The barrier hooked his arm as he flew over it, violently dislocating his right shoulder. He ended up in a ditch on the other side, nearly breaking his leg.
“The first thing I remember was that I couldn’t find my right arm… I couldn’t feel it, I was sure I’d lost
