Olympian Greg Rutherford has up to date followers on his restoration after struggling a severe damage throughout coaching for this 12 months’s Dancing On Ice.
The gold medallist made it to the highest 4 of the ITV skating present earlier this 12 months, however was compelled to drag out of the competitors forward of the finale after an accident in rehearsals.
Posting on his Instagram story earlier than present process surgical procedure final month, Greg defined: “I’ve been a bit busy and clearly simply recovering from the preliminary damage earlier than I had the surgical procedure.
“Lengthy story brief, I leapt by way of the legs of [Dancing On Ice professionals] Brendyn [Hatfield] and Colin [Grafton] and managed to tear all of my abs in addition to herniate. So I successfully gave myself a C-section.”
On Tuesday night, Greg shared candid photographs of the aftermath of his abdomen surgical procedure, and shared how he’s been recovering.
“I’m virtually 4 weeks post-op now and feeling so significantly better,” the lengthy jumper stated.
“I can transfer round with virtually no feeling of ache and the wound has now closed and healed.”
Noting that the second picture of his Instagram collage confirmed “the insane swelling I initially had”, he added: “I can’t tense my abs correctly nonetheless, however that’s coming.”
Please be warned that the under photographs are just a little on the graphic facet:
“I’m again on Insta and thought I’d gross everybody out,” he joked when sharing the identical photographs on his Instagram story. “However it’s a constructive replace.”
After retiring from the lengthy leap, Greg had begun coaching in a brand new discipline, the bobsleigh, with the hope of representing Workforce GB on the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Nonetheless, he was compelled to drop these plans as a consequence of an damage, which was a part of his motivation for signing up for Dancing On Ice.
“I like a problem and I wanted a motive to exit and do stuff once more and right here we’re,” he stated when he was first introduced for the line-up.
“I’ll go 100,000 p.c on this. I’ll strive laborious, I’m on no account anticipating to be good however I’ll work as laborious as I can.”
