Steph targets judo return after recovery from motorbike accident
Judo star - given a 1% chance of survival after accident in Vietnam vows to return to the sport.
Commonwealth silver medallist Stephanie Inglis from Inverness is determined to make her judo comeback, having survived an horrific motorbike accident in Vietnam. The 27-year-old arrived back in Scotland in mid-June and was treated at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital before moving to a specialist unit in Fife. She has vowed to return to a normal way of life, which for her includes judo. Steff said: "The goal is to obviously get back into a normal way of life and, well, judo for me was normal, I've been doing it since I was four" "To not be able to do judo, that wouldn't be my normal life, so probably after the year I'll start looking at getting back into the sport and doing some training to get my fitness and all that back" "But for now, because I'm going back up to Inverness, I'll help at my Dad's judo club - help coach so at least I'm in and around it and can be involved because I do miss it" The Glasgow 2014 medallist suffered head injuries when her skirt caught in the wheel of a motorcycle taxi and pulled her off the bike in Vietnam. She was travelling to work teaching English in Ha Long when the accident happened on the 12th of May. Doctors in Vietnam initially gave her a 1% chance of survival but she has since defied the odds, emerging from a medically-induced coma and returning to Scotland. Robert Inglis, Stephanie's father, put his daughter's recovery down to her "fighting spirit" honed through years of judo practice.