Telkom 94.7 Cycle Challenge
Mendes set for Telkom 947 Cycle Challenge a year after horror crash
Daryl Mendes will be at the start of Sunday’s 22nd edition of the Telkom 947 Cycle Challenge in Johannesburg a year after suffering near-fatal injuries. The 48-year-old Boksburg resident cheated death while training on October 14 2017 when he was hit by a car whose driver ignored a stop sign, leaving him in a critical condition. He sustained a broken neck, back and jaw injuries and bleeding on the brain, not to mention a torn ear and eye damage. He was treated on the scene before being transferred to Union Hospital, where he spent 12 days in the intensive-care unit, with doctors fearing the worst. Another two days in a high-care ward was followed by two weeks in rehabilitation. When he awoke for the first time, his first words to his wife Alloutte were: “I must charge my battery [his bike had electronic gears] for the race.” “I don’t remember the accident — all I know is my life was in somebody else’s hands,” said Mendes, who was a spinning instructor in his spare time when not work...
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