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Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is no stranger to injuries, but the broken femur he suffered “feels different” from what he has experienced before.
The 53-year-old first revealed the injury in March:
Tony Hawk @tonyhawk
Yesterday sucked. I broke my elbow 20 years ago and managed to make a full comeback; this broken femur recovery will take longer but I’m up for the challenge. <br>Strangely ironic that it happened on the eve of <a href=”https://twitter.com/HBO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@HBO</a> releasing a trailer for “Until The Wheels Fall Off,” <a href=”https://twitter.com/samjones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@samjones</a>’ doc <a href=”https://t.co/xeVwwtQjVb”>pic.twitter.com/xeVwwtQjVb</a>
He explained to Esquire‘s Jack Holmes the injury and how it happened are emblematic of fighting a losing battle with Father Time:
“I feel like it’s a major warning. If you want to get into the weeds of it, I was doing a McTwist and I didn’t really have enough speed for it. I knew that going into it, but in the past, and in my younger days, that’s not a problem. I just tuck it up and spin faster and I force it around. I don’t have that same snap. I can’t ball up the way I used to, but I refused to believe that in that moment. And suddenly I was on the wall when I thought I was still in the air, and I was not ready to ride back down the ramp. And so I was recovering from that all the way down, and that snapped my leg.”
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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