In 2018, Samer Tawk became the first athlete to represent Lebanon in cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics. A year later, he was lying in a hospital bed wondering if he would ever walk again.
Almost seven years ago, Samer Tawk wondered whether he would walk again.
"I was young and crazy and was skiing somewhere I shouldn't have been in Lebanon, and I fell 14 meters (46 feet)," Tawk told DW.
Now the cross-country skier is preparing to represent Lebanon at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
It is a long-awaited return to the world stage for the 27-year-old. In 2019, Tawk was looking forward to the Beijing Games in 2022 and his second Winter Olympics but then suffered serious injuries doing the sport he loved.
"I was broken.
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