The bravest comeback: Victoria Williamson racing again, three years after breaking neck, back and pelvis

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s a stream of Victoria Williamson’s blood oozed across the track, medics threw a small canopy around the stricken cyclist, as they might for a lame racehorse that had to be put down. “From what the crowd saw,” she says, “it looked near enough like I was dead.” For anybody of a delicate disposition, her injuries were a dreadful sight. Such was the mayhem of her high-speed tangle with Dutch rival Elis Ligtlee, whose bike propelled her into a fence, she had broken her neck, back and pelvis, while sustaining a cut to her flank so deep that it exposed her bare spine.