Le chant des fusils

When Emily Rodger entered the cycling community at an older age, she turned heads. It didn't take long for her to realize that she was a gifted athlete and was, for the first time, finding a passion in sport. She had an exciting new life-path to explore, until everything suddenly changed when she was struck by a car on a training ride. Emily suffered severe facial and head injuries. Her life and career hung in the balance. Through years of surgeries and physio, she rediscovered fly fishing as a way to cope with PTSD and a brain injury that resulted from the accident. But this did not stop Emily from getting back onto her bike. Emily would go on to win world championships twice until a second race-course collision again brought her to think deeply about purpose. As an elite angler and executive coach, Emily now travels around the world to fly fish and publicly speak, using her own traumatic experiences to help others overcome their own. —Greg Hemmings