Tag: Amy van Dyken
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Amy Van Dyken-Rouen goes sailing Friday with other Craig Hospital patients
Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen joined other patients at her rehabilitation hospital for a day of boating. Courtesy of 7NEWS on YouTube
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Injured Olympian swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen on moving forward
In this web extra, Van Dyken-Rouen shares how she stays optimistic during her recovery from an ATV accident that severely injured her spine.
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How Amy Van Dyken-Rouen turns injury into inspiration: ‘This is for my life’
See Today Health Six-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen may have been badly injured in an ATV accident, but she is “not afraid” of the hard road to recovery that lies ahead. “This is a new challenge, and I’m taking it head-on,” Van Dyken-Rouen told Matt Lauer on TODAY Friday. “This is more…
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Amy Van Dyken ‘Going to Get Through It’
See ABC News The six-time Olympic Gold medalist swimmer who severed her spinal cord in an ATV crash says the surgeon told her to say her goodbyes to her husband after the crash. “There’s a good chance I wasn’t going to make it out of surgery,†Amy Van Dyken-Rouen said Wednesday. “I looked at my…
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Video: Amy Van Dyken Speaks To The Press, Surgeon Explains Injury
See SwimmingWorld While lying on a stretcher just a few feet from the airplane set to transport her to Craig Hospital in Colorado, Van Dyken said her memory of the day she was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle in Show Low, Ariz., is very fuzzy. Most of what she knows was described to her after…
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Amy Van Dyken out of ICU
Read for instance The Gazette and KDVR Olympic champion swimmer Amy Van Dyke-Rouen has been moved from intensive care to a regular hospital room, nine days after severing her spinal cord in an all-terrain vehicle accident. Hospital spokeswoman Jamie Grimm says the six-time gold medalist was in good condition and moved from the ICU on…
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Dave Denniston is sure Amy van Dyken will be fine
Read Classicalite and CBS Six-Time Olympic gold medalist Amy Van Dyken is in a hospital after an ATV accident last weekend. She is paralyzed after suffering a severed spinal cord. The former Olympic swimmer has put on a brave face for news and social media, although it has been obviously a difficult time for her…
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Amy Van Dyken Recovering After ATV Accident Severs Spine
Read for instance SwimmingWorld and Bleacher Report Former Olympic swimming champion Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is recovering following surgery to stabilize her spine after it was severed during an all-terrain vehicle accident in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday, according to Jeff Metcalfe of azcentral.com. The 41-year-old six-time Olympic gold medalist told emergency personnel she had no feeling in her…
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Coughlin: Olympics way scarier than “Dancing With The Stars”
Natalie Coughlin has gone through it twice, escaping with eleven medals from two Olympics. So it must be easy for her by now? “Trust me, the Olympics are terrifying,” Coughlin said after swimming in the Santa Clara Grand Prix on Sunday. “In a good way, but terrifying. There’s nothing like walking onto the deck at…