{"id":3035,"date":"2014-08-28T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/boyle-to-compete-in-icu-para-cycling-road-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:44:14","slug":"boyle-to-compete-in-icu-para-cycling-road-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/boyle-to-compete-in-icu-para-cycling-road-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Boyle’s story is a triumphant one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read The Greenville News<\/em> article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ryan<\/a>

Ryan Boyle will compete in International Cycling Union Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville Aug. 28-Sept. 1. (Photo by Mykal McEldowney\/Greenville News)<\/p><\/div>\n

Update:\u00a0Boyle won the silver medal in his time trial and finished fourth in the road race after suffering a flat tire.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Furman University junior Ryan Boyle (Marietta, Ga.) will compete in the International Cycling Union Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville Aug. 28-Sept. 1. He is part of the 45-member Team USA representing U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n

Boyle\u2019s time trial will take place Saturday, Aug. 30 at 10 a.m., and his road race will be held Monday, Sept. 1 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

A qualifying event for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, the competition will bring to Greenville 350 athletes from 40 nations.<\/p>\n

The event kicks off with an opening ceremony Aug. 27, followed by the competition on Aug. 28 which begins with the hand-cycling relay at the BMW Performance Center in Greer. The events move to the CU-ICAR Millennium Campus Aug. 29-Sept. 1 for time trials and road races.<\/p>\n

Boyle, 20, suffered severe brain trauma at age nine when a speeding truck collided with Boyle while he was riding a Big Wheel trike at a friend\u2019s party. Life-saving emergency surgery removed most of his cerebellum which controls balance and other body functions.<\/p>\n

Boyle spent two months in a coma, then seven months in a rehab hospital and emerged with the ability to move only his right index finger. Doctors held out hope that he might be able to type eventually with his right hand.<\/p>\n

Boyle and his family had other ideas. After years of grueling rehab, determination, and prayer, Boyle is now competing as an MT2 athlete for the National U.S. Para-cycling Team.<\/p>\n

Read more about Boyle\u2019s story at this link<\/a><\/i>. More information about the World Championships may be found here<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Furman University junior Ryan Boyle, who will compete in the International Cycling Union Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville Aug. 28-Sept. 1, overcame a devastating and nearly fatal brain injury as a child to become one of the best para-cyclists in the world. His inspirational story was chronicled in a front-page article in The Greenville News<\/i> on Aug. 28. If you\u2019re interested in following Boyle\u2019s efforts in the competition, his time trial will take place Saturday, Aug. 30 at 10 a.m., and his road race will be held Monday, Sept. 1 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":13550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}