ANAHEIM, Calif. -- It had been 350 days since Ken Roczen left Angel Stadium in the back of an ambulance after a horrific crash in the third race of the 2017 Supercross season nearly ended his career, but he was back on the starting line in Anaheim for the 2018 season-opener. It was as unlikely a comeback as any in sports, a story few people believed would be written so quickly.
"I think more than half of people thought I was done," Roczen said in an interview with ESPN.com on Monday. "Maybe everybody. At first, we thought we were done.