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Buddies and lifting weight, and i remember doing a dead lift and my back all of a sudden, it just seized up. i kind of tilted over, and i remember i could not walk. i couldn't get off the ground. >> reporter: his back was broken. >> after three months, i finally got out of the body cast. and i started p.t. i just had to learn how to walk and pick things up off the ground and then i wanted to get on the ice. >> reporter: he had to come back slowly and wear just one pair of skates. >> i was never a medalist, and i always-of-that was tough for me. i decided i would figure skate and per sue it as ...