A teen whose leg spontaneously snapped during a boxing match was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer - and had his leg amputated. Ollie Hercombe, 16, began boxing as soon as he could walk and grew up going to the gym to train three times a week. In early 2022 he began suffering occasional discomfort in his right shin and a lump formed, which was put down to shin splints.
The teen just ignored the soreness and continued going for five-mile runs and daily gym sessions. But on March 18, while sparring in the boxing gym, Ollie stepped back - and his right shin snapped. He was rushed to hospital and put into a leg cast - and an x-ray showed his leg snapped because he had a cancerous leg tumour.
The options were a long, painful and risky operation to extract the cancer from his leg with a long recovery process, or an above-knee amputation. The sports fanatic was desperate to get back on his feet - and decided an amputation would give him the best chance. The amputation went ahead on May 13 in a three-hour surgery, and now Ollie is raising £70k for a high-tech bionic limb so he can get back in the ring.
Ollie, from Smith's Wood, Solihull, West Midlands, said: "The pain after the leg broke was horrible. They gave me the options and I wanted to decide what was best for me to continue sport afterwards. Since the amputation I've had some dark days and nights - but I think I've handled it as well as I could.
"I know 100 per cent that I've made the right decision." Mum Kerry Bolton, 45, a .