{"id":226756,"date":"2026-01-04T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226756\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:06:10","slug":"im-the-luckiest-fker-in-the-world-miracle-man-ger-copeland-defies-cruel-fate-and-chronic-pain-to-run-on-his-own-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226756\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m the luckiest f**ker in the world\u2019 \u2013\u00a0Miracle man Ger Copeland defies\u00a0cruel fate and chronic pain to run on his own terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nDubliner suffered brain injury in freak skiing accident but his unbreakable spirit has seen him travel on an inspirational journey\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ger Copeland: 'I\u2019m dying. This is over. I\u2019m an athlete: I know my body. Look after my kids. Look after you.' Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GM Ger Copeland 001.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ger Copeland: &#8216;I\u2019m dying. This is over. I\u2019m an athlete: I know my body. Look after my kids. Look after you.&#8217; Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are two ways of looking at this. Either you could say Ger Copeland is lucky, that he has no divine right to be alive, and focus on how he\u2019s defied outrageous odds not just to live, but to live the way he does \u2014 winning marathons and scaling unfathomable heights for a man in his condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You could look at the 10 per cent chance of survival he once had and think how fortunate he is to still be around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubliner suffered brain injury in freak skiing accident but his unbreakable spirit has seen him travel on an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16452,45574,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-226756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cathal-dennehy","9":"tag-dublin-marathon","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}