Critically injured cyclist needs support

By Mark Zalewski, North American Editor

Bret Neylon (Heroes Foundation Cycling Team), a middle school history teacher and running coach from Brownsburg, Indiana, crashed while racing at the Summer Solstice road race in Wilmington, Ohio. Nylon, 39, suffered a fractured C3 vertebra causing him to lose all feeling from the shoulders down. Surgery was performed to fuse the C3 and C4 vertebrae and a plate was placed on the break to stabilise the bone.

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