Goldstein aims for BC Superweek, again

Less than one year after a near fatal bike crash, Vancouver’s Leah Goldstein is back to racing, winning, and finally aiming at her first BC Superweek victory, July 15-23. The former World Champion kick-boxer, now with Team Symmetrics, was marching toward her season-long goal of winning at BC Superweek last year, winning nine of eleven races along the way when her season and almost her life came to a sudden end on July 7, 2005 on a high speed descent in the Cascade Classic in Bend, Oregon.

"A rider in front of me kind of lost her nerve on a corner and cut in front of me taking out my front wheel," Goldstein recalled. "I went down face first at 70 kilometres an hour and everyone behind piled up on top of me. I fell so hard that I broke the roots of five of my teeth and now need implants. My lips got rubbed off, I had road rash from one end of me to the other. I broke my right arm, ribs, a cheekbone and my pelvis was in pieces."

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