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Archive Home > 2002 > June > 13 > Crash, surgeries can't keep Bend's Decker out of racing

Crash, surgeries can't keep Bend's Decker out of racing

Professional mountain bike racing

By Keith Ridler / The Bulletin
June 13, 2002

Two years ago, Carl Decker was in a St. Charles Medical Center hospital bed for nine days with his torso wrapped in metal and plastic. A metal tower immobilized his head and two broken vertebrae high in his spinal column.

Now, the 27-year-old Bend resident has swapped that contraption for the....

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