Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins stars admit to hiding severe injuries including broken ribs
ok.co.ukAs Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins returns to our screens for another nail biting series, we sat down with some of the stars of the show to discuss the trials and tribulations of putting themselves through such a gruelling process.
Tested to their very limits both physically and mentally, the survival challenge would push their bodies to breaking point and even left several of this year’s cast suffering from injuries - something, they admitted, they were keen to hide from their superiors in order to avoid being eliminated from the show.
Opening up about his own experience of injuries on the show, Paralympic high jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards admitted that he had suffered a fair few during the series, including after the boxing scenes which are due to air in the very first episode of the series. “Talking about the boxing, I was not quite knocked out but knocked down hard twice by Dwayne,” recalled the gold medallist with a wince.
While the beating was surely painful, it wasn’t a patch on the broken ribs he also earned later in the series. “I had a couple or ribs broken during murderball,” he admitted. “I did get sent to the medics, but if you’ve got no evidence, on like the sats or something, you have a device on your finger to check your oxygen in the blood. “If you don’t have any evidence of lung puncture you’re pretty much good to go.” Explaining how he had managed to cope with the injury, which is renewed for being extremely painful, the Tokyo 2020 athlete said: “ I think I was in for an extra day and a half for my ribs and then I was just stretching to try and manage it.
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