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TV pundit Jonathan Davies works at rugby league game despite arm fractures
Published: 16th Jul 2012 18:04:22
BBC rugby pundit and former Wales international Jonathan Davies co-commentated on a rugby league game despite having fractures in both arms.
Davies, 49, said: "I just fell off my bike and landed on both my arms and the shock went up my arms. It was painful."
But the spill did not stop him from attending a wedding the same day and continuing with work commitments, although he is not wearing any casts.
He said: "They are just fractures. You have got to get on with it."
Presenter Clare Balding had told viewers of Davies' injury and said he'd been "extremely brave" to climb a ladder to the commentary box.
Davies, who played both league and union for Wales, was working on the Warrington Wolves' win over Huddersfield Giant in the Challenge Cup semi-final on BBC2 on Sunday 15 July.
He was practising for a charity bike ride for the cancer centre of which he is president, when he fell.
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BBC News, 2012. TV pundit Jonathan Davies works at rugby league game despite arm fractures. [Online] (Updated 16 Jul 2012)Available at: http://www.ukwirednews.com/news.php/1440826-TV-pundit-Jonathan-Davies-works-at-rugby-league-game-despite-arm-fractures [Accessed 20th June 2013]
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