racers and royals

Outstanding rider Tomasz Gollob in a moving conversation tells us about the daily fight against pain after an accident. Tomasz Gollob decided to make his first interview with the media since he had a horrible accident on the motorcycle track. The speedboat argues that he knew about the media's interest and did not want to give them food "I'm a good thinker and I believe I'm going to get out of it," says the famous athlete. MATEUSZ PUKA: Thank you for the opportunity to talk - the first after the long silence that you have given us. We knew it was not good, but we were hoping for a quick update on your health. TOMASZ GOLLOB: Everyone was expecting good news. I also. Unfortunately, the injury is huge and my health is not as good as I expected. But it is better than the first days after the accident. I know from the doctors' accounts that they have fought a real fight for my life. When I woke up, I hoped that everything would go better. In this situation can we at all speak of progress in recovery by your efficiency? If you compare my current situation with this after the accident, you can certainly talk about improvement. Previously, I was fighting for life, and now I can talk freely and practice. Unfortunately, the process of reaching fitness was hampered by the appearance of spasticity (excessive uncontrolled muscle tension). After the accident, the doctors almost asked the symptoms almost daily. But then I did not know what they were talking about. It was only after about two months since the accident the spastic movements began to progress. Only then did I understand the concerns of the doctors. I know that there is nothing more difficult in life than spasticity. She does not give me peace for a moment. He attacks unexpectedly and makes me not myself. Perhaps with time the symptoms will subside. This is a long-term process. This is the biggest obstacle preventing return home. One of the few, but definitely the most serious. Anyway, back home I do not hurry at all. It does not matter to me when I come back, because the more important question is in what state? Doctors every morning carefully question me and like me, expect good news. We are constantly waiting for improvement, because the core still has time to send positive signals. We are waiting for them. When did you first realize that there is no feeling in your legs? I recovered after a week, and understanding what happened took a few extra days. Why did you wait so long to tell what happened? Are you afraid? I was not afraid. I just knew I needed time. I also knew that the media wanted to take advantage of the situation and my accident. I did not want to participate in it. Especially since I did not feel the best. It's time I told myself about what happened and what my situation was like. Another thing is that I live in the hospital at about an hour. I focus only on activities that can temporarily improve my health and reduce pain. Earlier I hoped that the improvement would be fast enough that the first interview I will give away from home What is the biggest problem on the road to recovery? Definitely a pain. Until recently, it seemed to me that a man suffers from a broken leg or a hand. It turned out that these sufferings are really a prelude to the real pain with which I now have to live every day. So in the last five months you did not even have one day in which it seemed that the pain was weakening and the breakthrough is near? Unfortunately not. On the side it looks maybe easier, but it's definitely the hardest fight in my life. It lasts for five months. For most of the career the motive that motivated me was the world championship, now it is the recovery of health. Move to another country and submit to innovative experimental therapy are taken into account? For the time being, I am very happy with the care in Military Hospital in Bydgoszcz. I would like to thank the doctors and all those who take great care of me. The operation that saved my life was conducted by Professor Marek Harat, who then dealt with me in the neurosurgery department. With great care at the intensive care unit, Dr. Włodarski was watching over me. Today my health is monitored by Dr. Tywoniuk and Dr. Radziszewski. My guardian angel Dr Cezary Rybacki is also watching over me. It's hard to find words to thank them for what they did for me. This is a great hospital and a model for other resorts. Anyway, if not for the outstanding specialists working in this hospital, I would have long since had to finish my career. They always saved me from the biggest problems. And this time it is similar. We analyze all possibilities Opportunity to recover may be experimental therapy in a foreign hospital. Will you take the risk? In my situation everything that gives hope to a decent life is worth checking out. I'm not afraid of experiments and whenever there is a sensible solution, I will definitely use the opportunity. I'm in touch with other speeders who have encountered such a fate. I exchanged observations with Darcy Ward, Leigh Adams or Krzysiek Cegielski. Each of them has different experiences and everyone has helped something else. With such injuries, there is no one good solution. The next few months will be spent in the rehabilitation ward. After weeks of tedious exercises. What is the typical day at the hospital? I start very early, because it's already around seven in the morning. By afternoon I am full of exercises. Rehabilitation takes place daily except Sunday. Fight never stops, however, because I am constantly struggling with pain. In the evening it is time to prepare for another difficult day. So far you have been in the hospital only for short visits. Hard to get used to the athlete to monotonous reality? Monotony is not a problem. The training of the athlete is monotonous and for years I have been used to it, I was able to enjoy it. At the hospital I can spend up to two years, I just have to see the target. He is staggered because we are still in the core shock stage. I believe that in the coming months there will be a breakthrough. Besides, humor improves every little progress. When I see that something goes easier on me than before, I gain additional motivation. But I am aware that it would be easier to replace a leg than to fix what happened to me. Is it difficult to mobilize for daily exercise that causes pain? I am waiting for rehabilitation every day and it is a determinant of what goes on. If it went well, I'm happy and ready to fight again. I had to understand quickly that I could not work, because it would threaten my situation. In the end, I came to terms with the fact that nothing could be accelerated. Besides, it is a great pleasure to have a short visit at home. After two or three hours I return to the unit, but I feel much better. What do you usually do during your stay at home? The time is so small that it is not enough for anything. I'm just happy to be able to stay at home. Do you have time to talk to other patients? Of course. A lot of these conversations can be learned. In the past years I visited the rehabilitation clinic, but then I did not pay attention to the people here and their dramas. Recently came to me a boy with whom a few years ago I swapped a few sentences in the hospital corridor. He was in bad condition, in a wheelchair, and I was trying to lift him up. He reminded me of the whole situation and my words to fight and not give up, and he will surely recover his fitness. From that meeting passed 2-3 years and this time he came to the hospital with his own strength, without a trolley and reminded our meeting. He wished me exactly the same thing. Our roles have turned away, it's amazing. Such visits add a lot of strength. They also give a lot of thought. Let's go back to the accident. Remember how there was a fall from the escarpment during the motocross race in Chełmno? I do not remember anything about these professions. The impact had to be atomic. Such memories quickly erase from memory. Witnesses say that just after the fall, you screamed that you did not feel your legs. It could have been because I was in shock. I remember only moments in the hospital just after waking up. For whom was the first conversation more difficult? For you or your loved ones? I think everyone was experiencing it similarly. It took me a while before I realized what had happened and what the consequences would be. Do you regret that you took part in the motocross race that Sunday? If not, today would be all right. I have been crossing since the age of 10 and it was my normal way of preparing for each season. In Spain, I came to the form needed on a speedway track. I always approached it professionally and responsibly. I never thought that it could happen. After the last major collapse in 2013 in Stockholm I thought I had exhausted the limit of luck. Have you considered the cause of the accident? The experts analyzed that there could be a hardware failure. I do not remember that incident and never thought about it. There is no point in saying . .

the Lubelska .TV video of Lublin v Rzeszow promotion/relegation 2nd leg Sunday 8th October http://www.lubelska.tv/wiadomosci/4125,retransmisja-finalowego-starcia-ze-stala-rzeszow

Ghostie knows

The club and the BSPA have 2 options1 if they don't want the rider banned they use the " non facility" option 2 if the club use a facility the rider is classed as " witholding his services" and the rider gets a 28 day ban- unless it's Scunthorpe who only seem to get 14days !!!!!

Thought i better bring this to the top

Photo`s from the Extraleague awards night https://speedwayekstraliga.pl/gala-pge-ekstraligi-2017-kulisy/

http://leicesterlions.co/news.php?extend.31094.1

Gomolski has been mentioned.

Our friends from Sabmar TV are showing the 2nd days action live on the internet on Sunday 15th October programme starts 11.40 am UK time here This is under 18`s event in 3 classes 50cc,125cc and 250cc

One thing we did learn last night is that Przedpelski is on a ban for withholding his sevices(that`s assuming Nigel Pearson is correct)

I am emailing the FA to tell them that they must not let any FA cup tie live between a non-league team at home to a Premier league team be shown on live TV as it would be a waste of time and could be embarrassing !!!!!!

With it almost certain that the premiership will be going to fixed nights starting next season I wonder if the BSPA will now relax the restrictions in place over British riders competing in these events. We did see this season British riders in the European U21 comp and also the pairs comp. Might we now see riders in the One sport best pairs SEC team championship We might even get a round over here !!!

I think BT Sport made the same error last year as well, but last night they gave the start time for the programme on Saturday 28th October as 7.45 AM instead of the correct time of 8.45AM !!!

Confirmation of line-up- Even though start time is 5.30pm UK time- both Eurosport Poland and UK are coming on air at 6pm UK time. Startlist: 1. Krzysztof Kasprzak #507 (Poland) 2. Mateusz Szczepaniak #58 (Poland) 3. Martin Smolinski #84 (Germany) 4. Kenneth Bjerre #91 (Denmark) 5. AndzejsLebedevs #129 (Latvia) 6. AndreyKudryashov #9 (Russia) 7. Vaclav Milik #13 (Czechia) 8. Artem Laguta #2 (Russia) 9. Przemysław Pawlicki #59 (Poland) 10. JuricaPavlić #19 (Croatia) 11. Daniel Jeleniewski #16 (Poland) 12. Michael Jepsen Jensen #52 (Denmark) 13. Leon Madsen #66 (Denmark) 14. Andreas Jonsson #100 (Sweden) 15. Mikkel Bech #177 (Denmark) 16. Kacper Gomólski #44 (Poland) 17. Oskar Bober (Poland) 18. Paweł Miesiąc (Poland

No he shouldn`t !!!! if a replacement can get his bikes ready to be transported along with all the other riders kit then the reserves should stay as reserves !!!!

Tatum has just said Nicholls can`t have an R/R ride- well he can !!!!!!

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Lublin have finished- however he is down to ride in an open meeting in Krosno on Saturday https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/714271/pieszczek-i-janowski-przyjada-do-krosna-obsada-friendship-speedway-trophy-bliska The old " English" knee problem that`s ok in Poland and Sweden !!!!

Gdansk statement issued today- Google translation In the first place, we would like to thank you for your many visits to yesterday's game. The faith and strength that you gave to the players was enormous and we believe that our stadium can look like that in every league competition in Gdansk. Unfortunately, the opponent turned out to be better. From this place we would like to congratulate the team of Toruń victory and maintenance at PGE Ekstralid. In this sentence we should finish, however, there were events in the past week that should not happen in the sport and we are obliged to inform you. On Wednesday one of the players of the team Zdunek Coast Gdańsk presented the proposal of financial gratification and contract in the team for the season 2018 in exchange for a weak attitude during the match play. The athlete rejected the offer and immediately informed the management of GKŻ Wybrzeże. A day later the offer was renewed and the player was offered a higher prize than on Wednesday. The offer was reissued. At the request of the player the club board abstained with all actions on the matter until yesterday. Our intention was to provide athletes with maximum mental comfort for Sunday's competitions. On Sunday morning, the other riders of Zdunek Coast were informed about the offer, and they all denied it to accept any offers of this type. In conclusion, we would like to emphasize that we have NO basis to claim that any of the competitors Zdunek Coast Gdansk presented unprofessional attitude in Sunday's competition, and the team from Torun won in unfair competition competition. We also believe that everything has taken place in a sporting fight. However, we have undeniable, hard evidence that the corruption proposal was made to at least one of our competitors and in our opinion this is absolutely unacceptable and pathological. We also have grounds to believe that this situation negatively affected the atmosphere in our team and the mental preparation of the players to the match. The case has been handed over to the police and will be handed over to the authorities of the Polish Motor Show and PGE Ekstraligi. We believe that union representatives will do their utmost to adequately punish perpetrators and slag sports will remain free of corruption and unsportsmanlike conduct. " Gdansk club activists do not want to comment more on the matter and will not be answering any questions about the sytem

Tarnow perhaps.

Story emerging tonight that the big Gdansk v Torun 2nd leg relegation/promotion match this afternoon might not have been raced with both teams giving 100% 1st leg Torun 47 Gdansk 43 2nd leg Gdansk 40 torun 50. let`s hope the UK equivalent isn`t subject to any allegations.

Gdansk v Torun promotion/relegation play-off 2nd leg Sunday 8th October https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYccbw2qnU

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYccbw2qnU

Lublin promoted to the Nice Polska league - Rzeszow relegated.Called off after 12 heats 47-25

Guest for either as per the rule book- Pawel 2nd in Averages Lasse 4th- maybe they felt they would be stronger in getting Nilsson a R/R ride by using R/R for pawel