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TAREK RASOULI / TARA LLANES / JOHNNY WADDELL / SAUL RAISIN / PAUL CRAKE STEVE PEAT / OENONE WOOD / CADEL EVANS / IRINA KALENTIEVA |
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Tarek Rasouli hit the ground hard in Canada, July ’02. “...I just overshot a gap. It was a big gap and I just went too fast.” He fractured his lumbar vertebrae, breaking his spine. The emergency surgery in Vancouver hospital did all they could, but since that day Tarek has been in a wheelchair. Born in Munich, Germany, Tarek got into BMX in 1983 and mountain biking in the early ‘90’s. He raced both BMX and mountain bikes until he signed with Rocky Mountain bikes as a ‘Fro rider’ at the end of ’99. These guys were paid to ride massive jumps and drops, fast and with style. Two and a half years later Tarek had the accident. As a professional rider since high school, he’d never
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With the riding scene cranking in his veins since the early ‘80’s Tarek began organising races and has since set up his own company – Rasoulution. “The guys are all my friends, the organisers, riders, photographers...by running events and being in contact with riders I feel part of the sport...it’s like a passive sort of riding.” “...people have come to respect me because I suffered an injury from the sport but I’m still here. So, everyone knows it could happen to them, maybe it’s also the fact that they see how much I love the sport and I stand behind it...maybe I stand ‘for it’. I’m just here for real I suppose.” |
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