Article: Another miracle on ice?(Sports)

Byline: Meri-Jo Borzilleri; Special to The Seattle Times

Leading the 500-meter sprint on the final day of last month's Olympic trials in short-track speedskating, J.R. Celski crashed, sliding and bouncing violently off the oval's padded wall.

The impact drove the tip of his razor-sharp right skate blade into his left thigh. When Celski came to a stop, he pulled out the blade. Then he looked at the wound.

"My first reaction was, 'What the hell is that?' " he said. "It's purple, red, orange, yellow and I can see the bone. I've never seen anything like that before."

Then the pain came. And the blood. He heard himself screaming. He heard ...

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