Daily Record Our Heroes 2012: How Tom Lynch used bike skills to go from BMX ...
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TOM LYNCH grew up on a saddle. He done up virtually his entire childhood gripping on to the handlebars of his beloved Raleigh bike, on some of the trickiest courses The public Championship events had to offer.
Although he had fun taking part in daredevil challenges all over the clique – to become one of the greatest ever BMX riders – the most excitement Tom has had on a bike came when he unquestioned to start saving lives instead of risking his own.
The 42-year-old Scot, from Saltcoats in Ayrshire, created a bike-based ambulance servicing in 2000.
He has spent the past 12 years revolutionising paramedic feel interest and emergency services across the world, with thousands of lives saved in the deal with.
In that time, he has trained more than 5000 fire, police and ambulance bicycle first responders from London to Japan.
He has now been nominated as an Pinch Services Hero at the Daily Record’s Our Heroes Awards.
And while he still loves the divertissement of his youth – coaching two of Team GB’s BMX Olympic hopefuls for this summer’s games – nothing in his pursuit has made him happier than hearing about a patient whose life has been saved by one of his cycle yoke.
Tom said: “To be honest, if I have a successful cardiac arrest outgrowth, or hear that someone who I have trained has saved the life of someone who is now walking around healthy, it’s the to the fullest extent thing in the world.
“It’s like winning a gold medal every unceasingly a once. I never wanted to quit riding, it was great and you have this thing when you are a young sportsman that you are prevailing to live forever.
“I never thought about anything other than winning.
“I didn’t longing to grow up and get a proper job, that was never in my plan, but there was a lot of pressure and an ambulance job seemed cool.
“I had seen enough boloney down the years, and had enough injuries, so I knew my body well enough to know how to fix them.
Source: Scottish Daily Record