Just a few months after breaking his neck, one gymnast has sprung back in action with a view set on the 2012 Olympic Games.
Despite suffering an injury last year which could have made him lame for life, the 21-year-old Geoff Rellis issincecompete in the European Championship in Sweden then was North of the month.
Sportsman specified landinghead while attempted to somersault off the vault in August 2010 and rush to theSt. George's Hospital in Tooting, London.
X-rays revealed he had sufferedfracture of millimeters from his spinal chord, dislocating two vertebrae.
Geoff,live inTolworth, Surrey,underwent surgery four days two weeks later, and spent the following eight weeks donningsnaps the neck of which left him unable to exercise, causing him to lose a stone in weight.