- Nicho Hynes helps a distressed person take his own life
- Hynes was also with two Sharks assistant coaches at the time.
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New details have emerged about how NRL star Nicho Hynes helped dissuade a complete stranger from committing suicide on a well-known bridge on the New South Wales south coast.
2GB sports presenter Spiro Christopoulos reported on Monday that the Sharks midfielder stopped a suicidal person from jumping off the Sea Cliff Bridge near Wollongong, about an hour’s drive south of Sydney.
Christopoulos said he texted the 2022 Dally M medalist to check if the story was accurate and received the response: “Yeah, dude. It happened. Crazy.”
It has now emerged that Hynes had been travelling with assistant coaches Steve Price and Daniel Holdsworth at the time of the heroics.
The trio stopped at the bridge after seeing a middle-aged man in a distressed state on the wrong side of the railing.
The man appeared to be agitated, holding a bottle of wine nearby and repeatedly saying, “Enough is enough.”
Holdsworth called police while Hynes and Price grabbed the man and took him to safety.
The distraught man reportedly recognised the Cronulla star before he and Price managed to calm him down by talking about football. The Sydney Morning Herald revealed.
Sharks star Nicho Hynes (pictured) saved a person from committing suicide
The individual was on the famous Sea Cliff Bridge (pictured) near Wollongong when Hynes and assistant trainers Steve Price and Daniel Holdsworth intervened.
The trio then pulled the man off the bridge to receive medical attention.
Hynes and Price then called the man on Monday to check on him and promised to take him to a Cronulla game when he was feeling better.
The talented scrum-half is known for his work in the mental health field, having spoken out about his own challenges in the past and launching Cronulla’s inaugural round of mental fitness earlier this year.
“I’ve been a big advocate over the last few years with my story and speaking out about mental health, I’ve talked about it a lot out loud, so I need to move forward with that,” he said in May.
‘I felt like if I was going to be someone who was going to stand up for this issue and speak out about it, then I had to do something about it.
Hynes was travelling with Sharks assistant coaches Steve Price (left) and Daniel Holdsworth at the time of the incident.
Hynes (pictured at the 2023 ARIA Awards) capped a difficult month on the pitch by breaking his leg in training on Monday.
‘There is no better feeling than seeing a child or someone message me to tell me that I have changed their life.
“I don’t want to sound arrogant at all, but that’s better than scoring a try in any football match.”
The heroics came during what has been a tough month for Hynes, whose Sharks disappointed in a surprising loss to the Titans on Friday night.
Shortly after the news broke on Monday morning, he was withdrawn from Cronulla’s training camp after suffering a fractured ankle and a complete tear of the syndesmosis ligament.
The 2022 Dally M medallist has since seen specialists and is now unlikely to return until at least the eve of the final.
“It has been confirmed that Nicho has a complete rupture of the syndesmosis, in addition to a tibial fracture in his left ankle,” Sharks head of performance Nathan Pickworth said.
‘He will undergo surgery tomorrow (Wednesday) and is expected to return to the field in approximately eight weeks.’
The injury is a major blow for the Sharks, who have lost five of their last six games and fallen from first to fourth in the standings.
Two months ago Cronulla were comfortably in a position to take top spot but are now just four points clear of tenth-placed St George Illawarra.
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