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Cycling almost 20 kilometres with paralysed muscles: Peter van Burk does it

8 May 2025
On Sunday 4 May, Peter van Burk did something that had never been done before. For the first time ever, an athlete with spinal cord injury took part in the Wings for Life World Run in Breda, using only a special bicycle and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) to power paralysed muscles.

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