2007 x games accident

It remains "the scariest thing I've ever been through," she said. As Stenberg shouted, "Get up, Cam! Get up! Sinclair remained completely still, but they could hear a faint gurgle inside him. Not only had he severely damaged the left side of his brain, temporarily paralyzing his right side, but he'd lacerated his liver. He was bleeding to death. Doctors at the arena induced a coma almost immediately. By the time Abegg saw him in the hospital that night, his body felt like an ice pack and tubes were everywhere.

The next 48 hours were crucial. Red Bull flew Sinclair's family from Melbourne to Madrid. For the first 10 hours, they didn't know whether Sinclair was dead or alive.

Then they got a message from Abegg: He was off life support, breathing on his own. Sinclair spent seven days in a coma, three weeks in a Madrid hospital and then a stint in an Australian hospital. His mind was erased like a chalkboard; he has no memory of being in Spain and still does not remember certain events from the past 10 years.

As recently as two months ago, doctors told him his balance was just 50 percent of what it had been. Yet on Friday in Los Angeles, Sinclair, 26, plans to attempt the same trick that nearly ended his life, this time with no hands on his bike during the dip between backflips. He will perform it at his long-awaited X Games debut, and if he sticks it, he could win the prize he's coveted since he ditched concrete construction to ride full time: a gold medal.

Best Trick at X Games is a backflipping man's game, but it wasn't always that way. The flip quickly became a stock maneuver as other riders followed. Then, with rumors swirling in , Travis Pastrana changed the game forever. Coming off a silver medal the year before, he landed the first double backflip in motocross history, winning gold.

Terrified by its destructive potential, he vowed never to try another. Such dangers are nothing new to Sinclair, who has landed more double backflips than any other rider in history. Last July, everyone's worst-case scenario played out: Sinclair, the man known for never coming up short -- especially on the double flip -- did exactly that. When he woke up in the hospital a week later, his face was blank.

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Indeed, not even the scare of the injury could stop the riders from raising the stakes in the last contest before most of them head to South Korea for the Olympics. That was five years ago with the Sochi Olympics approaching. By the end of , they were the only two riders to land it in a competition. Hirano and White will push on with their s.