ST. GEORGE, Utah — The extreme sports community is rallying around a bike racer as he faces medical bills he didn’t expect after he was severely hurt during last month's Red Bull Rampage in Virgin.

Adolf Silva of Barcelona has been going to extremes since he performed his first double flip on his BMX bike at age 16. At the 2018 Red Bull Rampage, the crowd crowned the 28-year-old the “people’s choice.”

But this year. Silva would be tested as he never had before.

"I remember everything ... I remember hitting the ground straight away," said Silva on Monday. "And then straight away, when I hit the ground, and then I was sliding down the landing, I already knew, like, I couldn't feel my legs, and I knew that it wasn't just like a bruise ... I knew just the legs were not working. I was like,

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