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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 05 > Back in the saddle

Back in the saddle

Bend cyclist Barbara Buchan overcomes injuries, aims for Paralympic gold

By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
August 5, 2008

Barbara Buchan rides a bike as if she were to the saddle born.

Which she may have been, but along the way Buchan, 52, had to learn the whole cycling thing over again, along with how to walk and string words together to form a sentence.

It was 1982 and Buchan was an up-and-coming athlete making a....

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