'If I could bottle this emotion, I'd share it with the world!"
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Aviemore's golden Paralympic legend David Smith – Dave to his legion of fans and admirers – is on top of the world after hearing the news he had hardly dared dream of hearing.
The 44-year-old rower turned cyclist, who has latterly been competing with partial paralysis after spinal tumour operations, has just posted this glorious news from Kitzbühel in Austria:
"What a few weeks, going from MRI scans to the mountains and knowing at the end of the trip oncology waited for me.
"During every moment of my week in the mountains there was a voice in my mind of what if my tumour has returned.
"As the days came closer to that phone call the voice got louder, I don’t want to face another surgery.
"From the top of Kitzbühel to oncology, then the words 'David all is stable, go and enjoy life, the radiotheraphy is working'!
"If I could bottle the emotion I felt in that second of hearing those words, I would love to share it to the world.
"Now to push on with life and live where my feet are in the present moment, and as @susandavid_phd says, show up each day with Compassion, Courage, and Curiosity."
Smith remains a Nike athlete, speaker, writer and coach, having competed internationally in several sports including GB Rowing, and British Cycling.
The Strathspey-based sportsman has overcome horrendous adversity and now shares both his experience in high performance sport and his first hand experience of fighting for his life with a rare tumour and living with paralysis.
