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James Cracknell, OBE, is a world record holder and double Olympic gold medalist. Since retiring from mucking about in boats (as he puts it), James has distinguished himself as a powerful endurance athlete. When not crossing oceans and continents, he writes for the Daily Telegraph, is in demand as an entertaining corporate speaker and is an ambassador for Karrimor and BMW. His wife, Beverley Turner, is a writer and broadcaster. Together they have three children.
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Double Olympic gold-medal winner and endurance athlete, James Cracknell. His story before and after his life-changing accident.
James Cracknell has rowed across the Atlantic, competed in the Race to the South Pole, and was the highest placed Britain ever in the epic Marathon Des Sables. He was on track to be one of the greatest endurance athletes our country has known.
But it was one challenge in 2010 a gruelling cycling race across the USA that nearly saw it all slip away. Whilst on his bike, the wing mirror of a petrol tanker smashed into the back of his head at high speed, causing severe frontal lobe damage. The doctors weren't sure if James would recover and, if he did, whether he would ever be the same again.
Written with his wife, Beverley, this is an inspirational and powerful account of James's fight back to become the man he once was.
'A rower's extraordinary story is movingly told.' Daily Telegraph
'The couple write with an unflinching candour that is, by turn, comic and deeply moving.' Hello!