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In 2013, long before he made history, Australian motor racing champion Toby Price was battling the physical pain of three broken vertebrae in his neck and the emotional hammer blow of being told by doctors that he would never ride or motorcycle again after an horrific accident while racing in America.Less than three years later, he became the first non-European to win the prestigious Dakar Rally, an event Price describes as 14 days of self-inflicted pain and torture.Such a dramatic turnaround paints a picture of Prices resilience, passion and drive -- attributes that have combined to produce one of Australias most talented and unsung sporting heroes.Growing up in a motor-mad family in country New South Wales, it was only natural that Price began learning his trade at the tender age of two. By four he was winning races and the idea of a career in motorsport had turned from dream to reality.From a really young age I always looked up to Mick Doohan, so I had ambitions to go down the MotoGP route, Price tells ESPN. I loved the way Mick approached everything; hes an Aussie that had the world against him and he just wanted to prove everyone wrong and go out there and race.Being an Aussie myself, I really wanted to emulate him; but I started to grow too tall and too heavy and couldnt quite go in that direction, so thats when I decided to switch to off-road racing.While his fall-back option has paid enormous dividends, it has been far from plain sailing. Tragedy struck the Price family in 2011, when his disabled sister, Minnie, passed away at age 29 from a brain haemorrhage. The event rocked Price enormously.When we lost her, it hit him harder than anybody, their father, John, told the Daily Telegraph. They got on like a house on fire. Always laughing, always being cheeky with each other. He takes her along for the ride now, as his guardian angel.And then, of course, there have been the injuries.Price has been battered and bruised in his fearless pursuit of becoming the worlds best off-road racer, and with 27 broken bones he has experienced unthinkable levels of pain and terror.Hardly a day passes when the 29-year-old isnt on a motorcycle, but in April 2013 he appeared to have run out of luck.I thought it was all over, Price tells ESPN.Racing at the AMA Hare and Hound National Championships in Lucerne Valley, California, Price crashed and broke three vertebrae in his neck. Amazingly he avoided becoming a paraplegic, but he was forced to spend six months in rehabilitation.It definitely was a tough time because you know that not a lot of people bounce back from something like that. It hit me that it could have been the last time riding a bike and I had doctors in America telling me that Ill never ride or race a motorcycle ever again.Even through it all I still always had those ambitions of being one of the best riders on two wheels in the world, so I put my head down and worked hard to get back.But the risks pale into insignificance when weighing up the rewards, particularly those that come from the monumental Dakar Rally.Forget the Bathurst 1000, the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix; this gruelling two-week motor race has rightly been labelled the toughest in the world. For Price, its the Holy Grail.The race sees almost 400 competitors from all over the globe congregating in South America for a hellish 9000 kilometre off-road journey. Riders and drivers must trek through multiple countries on gravel, sand and dirt while battling extreme heat if theyre to avoid being among the 40 percent of annual non-finishers.The first few days are pretty exciting, Price says. The event is pumping and everything is going in the right direction. But by the middle of the first week you go into shutdown mode and turn into a bit of a robot.Youre getting four, maybe five, hours of sleep a night and then youre back up trying to cover 500-1000km in a day. The amount of strain and stress and fatigue it puts on the body, theres no way to describe it. I lose around eight kilos in 14 days of racing, and Im not being shy on eating, either. That just shows how much of a strain it is on the body.In January this year, Price became the first non-European to win the prestigious event in any category; amazingly, it was just his second time competing.Now, approaching 30, Price continues to live his life -- and share with others -- one simple, yet resilient motto: Never give up.He hopes to inform others battling through adversity that dreams can still be achieved.The best lesson Ive ever learnt was to never give up. Hopefully my story kind of shows everyone that nothing is impossible and if you want things bad enough and youre willing to put the hard work and effort in, then you can achieve those things, he says.Toby Prices documentary Paying the Price premieres on Red Bull TV in December. Adidas Human Race For Sale . After slipping from the summit during the week, the Gunners overcame struggling Crystal Palace 2-0 on Sunday thanks to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlains second-half brace. Adidas NMD Clearance Sale . 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Nathan Cleverly insists he is better now than when he was first supposed to fight Juergen Braehmer five years ago.The Welshman was due to challenge Braehmer (48-2, 35 KOs) for the WBO world light-heavyweight in 2011 but the German pulled out injured.Cleverly (29-3, 15 KOs), 29, went on to become WBO champion and reigned until he was stopped by Russian Sergey Kovalev in 2013 and has since suffered two more defeats both on points to fellow Briton Tony Bellew (November 2014) and Andrezj Fonfara nearly a year ago.But Cleverly believes it was destiny he would eventually catch up with WBA world light-heavyweight champion Braehmer, who is 38 four days after they fight in Germany on Saturday.Its been five years in the making this fight between myself and Braehmer and I just feel its destiny now, its been destined to happen, Cleverly said.It took the shine of my world title victory when he pulled out. I wanted to ripped the title of Braehmer that night. He was the champion and I wanted to win the belt from him, but the belt became vacant and I beat someone else for it.I was confident five years ago of defeating Braehmer, but I would say Im more confident now.I feel that I have developed as a fighter and as a person. Im a lot more wiser, a lot more mature mentally as a person. I was a very young man ffive years ago, now Im more of a man physically.ddddddddddddI just feel the time is right now and I feel in a better state going into this fight second time round.There comes a time when the older champion has to move aside to allow the younger lion to come through.After losing to Kovalev, Cleverly stepped up to cruiserweight lose a rematch with Tony Bellew on points and suffered another points setback almost a year ago on a trip to the States to fight Andrzej Fonfara.But Cleverly insists he can revive his career next weekend and make two-time world champion Braehmer, who began his professional career in 1999, look his age.I dont feel weve seen the best yet of what I can offer, and getting my hands on that belt will allow me to showcase what I can really do, and make the second phase of my career the best one yet, Cleverly said.Its my time now, Braehmer has had his time, great career, but its my time now. I just believe that this is mine for the taking.When I became world champion, I was the only champion in the UK at the time and now there are 13 world champions. Ive had my time away from the world title stage, and now its time to get it back and join in the fun. ' ' '