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Colorado pistillate making gymnastics past aft life-changing wounded
A Colorado pistillate is making gymnastics past aft her comeback from an wounded she thought would permission her sidelined from the sport.
Highlands Ranch nonmigratory and parent of two, Angela Fuller, began gymnastics astatine a young age.
"I really started gymnastics erstwhile I was 5 years old. I was doing flips disconnected the bars astatine school, and they told my mom, 'You should enactment her successful gymnastics,'" said Fuller.
Angela Fuller
Fuller stuck the cleanable landing with gymnastics and for years performed competitively. But thing could hole her for life's adjacent twist.
"Right retired of college, I was really successful a car accident, and I severely injured my back," explained Fuller. "I had compression fractures successful my backmost and besides herniated disks and had nervus impingement damage."
Angela Fuller
She had to accidental goodbye to gymnastics, but arsenic the years went on, she ne'er forgot the athletics she erstwhile loved. At the property of 41, Fuller decided to springiness it different try.
"When I came back, I wanted to bash a afloat comeback, right? I went backmost and did women's events, past I added connected men's events," she said.
Angela Fuller
Fuller besides participated successful play 15 of American Ninja Warrior. She became the oldest gymnast successful the state to ever implicit each 14 events successful the NAIGC Omnithon, adjacent taking location a metallic medal successful the men's all-around.
Now astatine 44, she said she hopes her communicative inspires others.
"Get disconnected the sidelines of your life. It's not excessively precocious to pursuit your ain dream," said Fuller.
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