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US speedskater Rebekah Bradford overcomes pulmonary embolism, makes try for 2nd Olympic team
• SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Rebekah Bradford was a highly trained athlete. She couldn't figure out why she was out of breath just walking up a flight of stairs.
• Turns out, she was suffering from a potentially life-threatening condition.
• Bradford was stricken with a pulmonary embolism last year, making her bid to reach the Olympics for a second time especially challenging. She is competing at the U.S. speedskating trials, which begin Friday in suburban Salt Lake City.
• "It's not been the easiest road to get where I wanted to be," Bradford said.
• Blood clots developed in her legs and eventually spread to her lungs, making it difficult to complete the simplest of tasks without getting winded. Over the course of six months, her condition kept getting worse and worse, leaving her in such excruciating pain that death seemed like a good option.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Friday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2013. There are four days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Dec. 27, 1927, the musical play "Show Boat," with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
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• On this date:
• In 1512, King Ferdinand II issued the original Laws of Burgos, which were intended to regulate the treatment of indigenous people on Hispaniola by Spanish settlers.
• In 1831, naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
• In 1904, James Barrie's play "Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" opened at the Duke of York's Theater in London.
• In 1932, New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened to the public in midtown Manhattan.
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