Alpine skiing - Osborne-Paradis down but not out after horrific injury

FILE PHOTO: Alpine Skiing – Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics – Men’s Super-G - Jeongseon Alpine Centre - Pyeongchang, South Korea – February 16, 2018 - Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada competes. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler

TORONTO (Reuters) - Considering his once mangled lower left leg has been put back together with 13 screws, bone cement and a hip bone taken from a cadaver, downhiller Manuel Osborne-Paradis' return to the piste could rank among the great ski racing comebacks of all time.

Even his trauma surgeon Stephen French, who had the task of reconstructing the shattered leg, would not disagree.