SUCCESS
Charlotte Roach
At death’s door
A tragic accident in 2011 left promising athlete, Charlotte
Roach desperately clinging to life. Today she is the
successful co-owner of Join the Rabble, a fun and
exciting way for adults to get into fitness and socialise at
the same time. She shares with us the emotional story of
her long road to recovery
Charlotte Roach: Hamperium Photography
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any people’s
dreams end in
a bleary-eyed
haze, with
alarms ringing.
For Charlotte Roach, her
dream also ended in a blearyeyed haze, with alarms ringing.
Unfortunately for Charlotte
though, she was bleary-eyed
due to excessive pain and
copious amounts of morphine
and the alarms she could hear
were the sound of hospital
monitors. A promising cyclist
who was on her way to the
2012 Olympics in London,
a tragic accident effectively
ended her dream of competing
for her country. A swerve by
another cyclist, a tumble, and
a collision with an oncoming
Land Rover left Charlotte
with 12 broken vertebrae,
a punctured lung, fractured
ribs, a broken collarbone and
minutes from the unthinkable.
Rather than fight for gold in
front of her home crowd, she
was simply left fighting for
her life. Whether she would
ever even walk again, let alone
cycle, suddenly enveloped her
entire existence.
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