Traumatic Brain Injury
Iriwn sustained two severe concussions during his racing career, once before the 1976, Olympics, and a second concussion before the 1980 Olympics. The first concussion was sustained on January 10, 1976 at the downhill race in Wengen, Switzerland and resulted in five days in hospital. Less than two weeks later, Irwin was back training with the ski team.
Irwin suffered a traumatic brain injury on a training run for an Export A Skier-Cross event on March 23, 2001 which put him in a coma for three days. He recovered from the injury to create the Dave Irwin Foundation for Brain Injury.
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