Against the Water : A surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory
Owen Wright, author2023
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The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a
brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal.
On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright entered the water at Pipeline,
Hawaii, determined to become a world champion. But after being pounded by a set
of monstrous waves, he ended up fighting for life and facing extensive brain
trauma. In this inspirational memoir, Wright chronicles the events leading up to
that fateful day, as well as the months and years that followed as he battled to
regain basic functioning, and eventually the capacity to compete again at the
apex of surfing.
Against the Water carries the reader back to Wright's boyhood in the tiny town
of Culburra, where his father, determined to raise champions, turned family life
into a kind of boot camp. While eccentric, his father's methods bore fruit: the
Wrights of Culburra would become Australian surfing royalty. Owen's story lays
bare the complex relationship with his father...
Main title:
Against the Water : A surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory
Creator:
Owen Wright, author
Date Published:
2023
Language:
English
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