Charlie Bowers Injury Update

After qualifying in sixth this past weekend in Toronto, Charlie Bowers went down pretty hard during practice and wasn't able to ride finals. There has been quite a bit of talk Charlie's condition, so here are the facts straight from Monkey himself.

"Sunday during practice before finals I was riding the hitching post and a was three tapping over it and my back tire slid off and I fell onto the tranny. My leg bent and made a really loud pop and from that point on I was pretty sure I broke my leg. I went up to Catfish and I had to tell him that I wasn't riding in finals anymore because of my injury. It sucked telling him that because I qualified 6th and now I couldn't ride at all; it was a major bummer on my part. We left to come home and I've been walking on my leg since I hurt it so I thought it was just my fibula. I got home last night from Ohio and I went to the doctors to get a few x-rays and came to find out that I hadn't broken my leg, I sprained it really bad and hurt the ligaments and tendons. I was kind of happy that I didn't break it but it's still a bummer that I can't do anything right now. I'm on crutches for 5 days and I go back to the doctor next week so they can tell me what's up with my leg because they're going to look further into the x-rays to make sure everything is alright. There's my story about not being able to ride in the Toronto finals because I got broke off!"