Pete Reed is the three-time gold medal-winning Olympic Rower and recently he revealed to the world that he suffered from a spinal stroke that caused his left side of the body below the chest area to be paralyzed.
The 38 years old Olympic rower, Pete Reed won gold medal three times in a row at the Olympic Games held in 2008 in Beijing, in 2012 in London and in 2016 in Rio.
Pete Reed is also a Royal navy’s Lieutenant Commander and has also gone on to win 5 gold medals at the World Rowing Championships before taking retirement back in 2018. Before his retirement, he was, in fact, starting training for competing in the 2020 Olympic Games which were to be held in Tokyo.
Currently, Pete Reed is waiting to find what possible long term effects are for this spinal cord attack and he will continue to update his fans about his health condition on his official Instagram account.
Pete Reed wrote in his post, “There is a very small chance I will make no recovery and a very small chance I will make a full recovery. Much more likely it will be somewhere in between. To what extent depends on the extent of the damage (which we can’t see) and how well I rehab. It was in the middle of my spine so I’m currently paralyzed beneath my chest. My arms are still strong and my brain is still as average as it ever was.”
A spinal cord stroke is a type of disorder that results in a disruption in the blood supply for the spinal cord but as to what caused it in Reed’s case, doctors still have no clue.
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