Jack is back

World Pro rider Jack Challoner – Ossa will make a long over due return to the 2014 FIM Trial World Championship at the Italian GP tomorrow. The twenty three year old British protagonist has been sidelined since early January with two consecutive and nasty injuries. The first of these was a broken wrist sustained at the opening round of the 2014 FIM X-Trial World championship in Sheffield, Great Britain, which kept his out of action for six weeks. Following an intense period of rehabilitation Jack was then back on a bike, but only briefly, before disaster struck again, as the Ossa rider explains. “The second injury came at an indoor Trial in Austria, I managed to crash and put the handlebar through my leg. The wound needed over forty stiches and became complicated as it also got infected too. This time I was off the bike for nine weeks. As a result of this I have only been back riding for about a week and a half, so I have no great expectations about my result tomorrow, but at least I am back in the championship again which feels good.” Challoner finished tenth overall in the 2013 FIM Trial World Championship and was a rider who looked to have the potential to move higher up the order this season before he suffered his two major set backs. Despite missing the opening three Grand Prix events in 2014, Jack still has time to make an impression on this year’s series, and has been warmly welcomed back to the close knit paddock of Trial.