What's Cool In Road Cycling

Cheated Death 3 Times, Now Back on the Bike

By Alastair Hamilton

Meet Thor Bloomfield. Thor suffers from a life-threatening disorder called Cystic Fibrosis.

At the age of 40, Thor was staring death in the face. He was required to have a highly technical 9-hour lung transplant operation in order to live. After two emotional false starts, Thor had a successful transplant.

In fact, 9 months later he competed at the Australian transplant games, winning a gold medal in cycling.

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Alastair Hamilton

Alastair Hamilton has been a pro team mechanic on the road, track and mountain bike and worked for the Great Britain team at the World championships in all disciplines. Since moving to Spain and finding out how to use a computer, he has gone from contributor of Daily Distractions at the 2002 Vuelta a España to editor at PezCyclingNews.

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