Beste Chris Waddell podcaster (2024)

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Zach Miller - Paralympian, World Champion born with Left Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy 1:06:12

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Zach Miller is a 24yr old snowboarder who was born with Left Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy. He discovered snowboarding through his treatment at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and has been a member of the US Parasnowboard Team since 2018. He is a 2022 Paralympian, 2-time World Champion, and avid enthusiast of motorcycles and video games.…

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Katrina Webb - Australian Sporting Legend! 1:06:49

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As an Australian sporting legend, Katrina Webb is no stranger to a Gold medal podium or a star-lit stage. She has received awards and medals most athletes only dream about. Despite this success, her journey hasn’t always been easy.Av Chris Waddell

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Julie Foudy - Iconic Women’s Soccer Player, Journalist, and Trailblazer 46:49

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I tried to match Julie’s legendary energy in this podcast. You’ll have to be the judge of whether I was successful or not. She’s famous from her team’s history changing Women’s World Cup Title in 1999. Learn how as athletes they were the best in the world, but also how they took upon themselves to ensure that the Women’s World Cup in the US would b…

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Joe LeMar - Paralympic Wheelchair Gold Medalist! 59:08

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Paralympic Gold Medalist & Wheelchair Softball and Basketball Champion on the Nametags Chat Podcast with Chris Waddell.Av Chris Waddell

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John Maclean - Ironman Champion, English Channel Swimmer, Former Professional Rugby Player, and Paralyzed Athlete Who Has Completed a Triathlon without a Wheelchair. 1:24:57

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John was a professional rugby player and aspiring triathlete during the off-season when an eight-ton truck hit him as he trained on his bike. Medical experts set his chances at “pine or mahogany” and told the family not to expect him to make it through the day. John made it through that day. When he emerged from the coma, he asked about his bike, w…

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Dan Egan - Pioneering Extreme Skier of “Egan Brothers” Warren Miller Fame and the Business Mind to Make it a Career 1:33:01

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Dan followed his brother John, six years older, into Warren Miller movies. They skied the steepest and gnarliest, but also went where the news was happening. Dan said, if it’s happening on CNN, that’s where I want to be, which meant skiing the Berlin Wall, sneaking into Lebanon, and almost dying in a storm on Europe’s tallest mountain, Russia’s Mt …

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Robert Enigl - 2022 Beijing Paralympic Monoskier & TGR film athlete! 46:48

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I am a 38 year old Adaptive Athlete, Professional Monoskier, TeamUSA member, World Cup Ski Racer, USA National Alpine Ski team member and 2022 US Paralympic Ski team member -Big Sky resort Athlete Ambassador - I'm also one of only a few Sit skier to ski Big Sky’s Big Couloir and Many first sit-ski descents, Gullies 2,3, Summit Direct, and Lower Pin…

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Hoda Elshorbagy - Egyptian woman wheelchair racer! 1:00:09

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Egyptian wheelchair racer now living and training in the US. Hoda shares her journey to coming to the US to train and compete and what the future holds for her!Av Chris Waddell

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Lori Frisher - Game Changing Disability Rights Advocate 58:06

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Lori played Division I tennis player even though she couldn’t hear the racket hit the ball. Relying on lipreading to communicate, COVID’s masks rendered the world quiet and alone. She was the first person in the world to receive an Esteem implant (an invisible hearing device) with her Cochlear implant. Suddenly the song of the world came alive then…

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Dan Berlin - Co-founder and President of Team See Possibilities, Ultra-marathoner and Triathlete 59:05

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Dan is a co-founder and President of Team See Possibilities, a non-profit organization which empowers young people with vision loss to thrive by providing scholarship and mentorship to high achieving college students who are vision impaired. He also serves as chairman of the board of Success Beyond Sight, a nonprofit corporation that helps individu…

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Scott Wolf - Actor, Producer, Director 1:09:46

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Those of you of a certain age, will definitely remember him as Bailey from Party of Five. He has tons of acting credits in film and television and has been part of some long running shows like the aforementioned Party of Five, Everwood and now Nancy Drew. He made his directorial debut on Nancy Drew during the third season with the “Voices in the Fr…

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Mike Schlappi - Motivational Speaker, Gold Medalist, Author! 1:00:49

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When motivational speaker Mike Schlappi takes the floor, a dazzling smile greets you. Then you notice the wheelchair. If ever a man was defined by what he can do instead of what he cannot do, it's Gold Medalist and Author Mike Schlappi. At the age of 14, Mike was an outstanding athlete when a gunshot to the chest at point-blank range challenged his…

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Ivan Blumberg - Sports Agent Who Leveraged the Power of the Athlete to Make the World a Better Place. 1:15:38

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It was Arthur Ashe, who made Ivan recognize the power of the athlete. Arthur had just been diagnosed with AIDS as a result of a tainted blood transfusion during heart by-pass surgery. He was dying and he could have hidden, but he asked, how can we use this? The resulting widely viewed, highly attended televised event the day before the US Open in w…

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Liam Flanagan - Student Leader and Disability Advocate! 57:37

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Monoskier with Cerebral Palsy and Varsity Wrestler at Andover High School.Av Chris Waddell

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Krige Schabort - Marathon Champion, Racing Wheelchair Designer, Father of a State Champ Runner! 1:01:17

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Krige was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. He was an all-round sportsman excelling in athletics, rugby, squash and surfing. In 1987 Krige lost both his legs during a military skirmish in Angola. This devastating incident changed Krige’s life forever.Av Chris Waddell

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Tyler Byers - Paralympian, Marathoner, Mono-skier & Data Scientist! 1:01:21

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Tyler Byers began racing at the age of nine. His first major road race was the Bloomsday 12K in Spokane, Wash., in 1992 - a race he's competed in ever since. Byers went to his first Junior National Wheelchair Championships in 1994, and came away with a bronze medal in the 1,500m. It was then that Byers decided to set his sights even higher, aiming …

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Laurel Sander - Chinese Medicine Doctor, Shaman, Healer and so much more 1:12:35

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Laurel might enjoy her job, some of which includes colonics, which she cheers, more than anyone I know. Her passion is to heal and to help and her motivation is both personal, she had to take charge of her health after numerous surgeries, antibiotics and opioid painkillers, and it’s rooted in the historical, the traditional and the spiritual. As sh…

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Michelle Konkoly - Paralympian, NBC Analyst, Med School Student! 1:00:32

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Michelle Konkoly is a 4x Paralympic medalist and pediatric rehabilitation rehab resident physician. After a traumatic spinal cord injury in 2011 left her with permanent weakness in her legs, she pivoted from able bodied swimming to the Paralympic sphere, and her career took off. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games, she was selected as team …

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Arly Velasquez - 4 x Paralympian Winter Games for Mexico - 2 x National Champion US and Canada 1:03:59

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Arly is a 4-time Winter Paralympian representing Mexico. He is an entrepreneur, baker, film director, healthy lifestyle promoter and much more! A 13 year sports career has led Arly to be the only representative of Mexico in the last 4 Paralympic Winter Games. He has been a continental champion on several occasions, National Champion of both the Uni…

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Paul Shulte - 3-time US Basketball Paralympian 2000, 2008, 2012 1:01:28

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Paul is a three-time Paralympian competing in Sydney Australia, Beijing China, and London England. Also, he became a 2-time world champion and in 2002 was named most valuable player at the World Championships in Japan. During his senior year of college, Paul's team won the Intercollegiate Championship, with Paul receiving Most Valuable Player, Acad…

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Trischa Zorn - The most decorated Paralympian of all time. 58:03

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Swimmer Trischa Zorn is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals, including 41 gold medals, over seven Paralympics. Zorn, who was born with a genetic eye condition that left her blind, first competed in the Paralympics at Arnhem 1980. Just 16, she won seven gold medals. She won six more gold medals at…

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Mike Savicki - Boston Marathoner & First Ever Quadriplegic to do 70.3 Beach to Battleship Triathlon 1:02:48

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Not only is he a 22-time finisher (and five-time division winner) of the prestigious BAA® Boston Marathon (making him the only person to have completed the marathon on foot and subsequently in a wheelchair), he has also earned more than 100 gold medals in the National Wheelchair Veterans Games (the nation’s largest annual sporting event for athlete…

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Ian Rice - 2 x Paralympian and ssociate Head for Undergraduate Studies in Kinesiology in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois. 48:56

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Stephani Victor - Paralympic Skiing Champion, who filmed her story from the moment she lost her legs in a freak car accident. 1:05:55

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Storytelling consumed Stephani as a film student at USC, but one of her professors told the class that they didn’t know anything because they lacked life experience. When a car careened out of control and trapped her against her boyfriend’s car in his driveway, she lost her legs, gained life experience and turned the camera on the journey from a ne…

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Marc Harrison - Healthcare CEO changing the system to serve everyone in wellness. 53:54

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Marc jokingly says that he’s been the one to ask the difficult questions from the time that he got kicked out of Sunday School as a kid for questioning why we as oppressed people would oppress others? Equity and agency have only grown in priority throughout his career as a Pediatric ICU Doctor and leader in the healthcare space. In addition to his …

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Andrew Kurka - Round 3! Update on the Paralympic Downhill in Beijing! 1:00:25

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Andrew Kurka joins us for round 3 on Nametags Chat. Andrew talks about his unfortunate crash in a training run in Beijing just minutes before his official downhill run start.Av Chris Waddell

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Andrew Kurka - After a big training crash, Andrew updates us on his Journey to Beijing! 1:06:37

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Andrew Kurka joins us for round 2, an update on his Paralympic Journey! Three-time Paralympian (2014, 2018, 2022); Two-time Paralympic medalist (1 gold, 1 silver) Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, 4th (downhill) Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, gold (downhill), silver (super-G), 7th (super combined) Paralympic Winter Games Sochi 2014…

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Jill Orschel - Emmy Award Winning Independent Filmmaker 1:02:52

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Jill spent nine years building trust, friendship and the story of Cora’s escape from an abusive, polygamist marriage through her artwork. Snowland will be Jill’s first feature length film. Her journey has gone from shooting stills as a middle-schooler, to being a Mountain Dew girl in a series of commercials that paid her college tuition, to running…

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Hannah Dederick - Youngest wheelchair racer on the U.S team! 43:04

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Born in China Adopted Spent the first few years of my life in an orphanage then was adopted by an American Family at the age of 4 years old and was brought to the United States. First lived in Alabama then moved to Spokane Washington. First Paralympic debut this year to compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. - One of youngest members on the…

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Chuck Aoki - Chuck Aoki - Paralympian, Captain US Wheelchair Rugby Team 1:02:15

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My name is Chuck Aoki, and I am originally from Minneapolis, MN, and I have used a wheelchair since the age of ten, due to a rare genetic condition. I am a three-time US Paralympic medalist in the sport of wheelchair rugby, current captain of the team heading to World Championships in October and have been involved in adapted sports for my entire l…

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Retired Rear Admiral Mike Hewitt - Nuclear Power as a Green Solution 1:12:46

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Energy Sovereignty, Authoritarian Regimes, Climate Change, Green Solutions, Decarbonization, Climate-Neutral Future, Energy Poverty, Reliable Energy, US, China, Russia, EU, Developing Countries. For Retired Rear Admiral Mike Hewitt, all people deserve energy, food and clean water. In a world that has a gross inequity of power, he sees nuclear as a …

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Jamie Nieto - Olympian, Actor, Writer, Producer! 56:57

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Jamie Nieto was born in Seattle, Washington and was raised as an only child in a single parent home in Sacramento, California. He’s a 2x Olympian, actor, writer and producer. Check it out!Av Chris Waddell

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Brad Snyder - Navy Explosives Ordnance Disposal Officer who lost his sight to an IED. Paralympic Champion. World Record Holder. Princeton PhD candidate. 1:19:32

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It’s easy to see Brad as a superhero because he’s achieved things about which most of of us just dream: Naval Academy graduate, explosives expert, breaker of a thirty year old world record, gold medalist in his second Paralympic sport, husband, father and Ivy League PhD candidate, but his success is the product of his struggles. He was about to qui…

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Jenna Fesemyer - Elite Wheelchair Racer and Marathoner! 42:49

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Jenna was diagnosed with a congenital birth defect called Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency from birth. This means that her left leg did not grow and she was born without a hip joint. Fesemyer fell in love with wheelchair racing and decided to pursue wheelchair racing in college. After some quick research, it was easy to find that the University of…

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Bob Babbit - Co-founder Challenged Athletes Foundation 1:18:04

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Bob Babbit co-founded the Challenged Athletes Foundation, which has helped 60% of Team USA Tokyo 2020 Paralympics at some point in their careers with grants for equipment, training and travel to the tune of $700,000+ for 128 athletes. Not only has it started almost everyone on their journey, it has also built a community that strengthens the group …

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M.C. Antil - Author of Floor Burns: Love, Passion and the 1967 Syracuse All-City Championship. 1:27:57

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M.C.’s professional career started, or attempted to start when he sent message to Ted Turner that he would walk from Syracuse to Atlanta to get hired by the Braves. As the process took a bad turn, M.C. slipped a dime into a pay phone and was immediately connected with the only Major League Baseball owner who would appreciate his initiative, the ico…

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Matt Ounsworth - Award-Winning Chainsaw Artist! 1:05:26

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Mattochainsaw is my cousin. After dangerous years of climbing trees as an arborist/tree trimmer, he started down a different path when his wife asked him to carve a bear for the front yard. Chainsaw art–taking a piece of wood, a section of tree, or the extended stump of a felled tree and turning it into a figure and a story. Matt attends competitio…

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Monica Quimby - US Women's Sled Hockey Team & Miss Wheelchair Maine! 57:32

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Monica Quimby reconciles the life of a former anatomy professor and former Miss Wheelchair Maine with being the current goon on the US Women's Sled Hockey Team, striving for the sports inclusion in the Paralympics. For those of you who don't know, the goon is the intimidator, the enforcer and generally the hardest hitter on the team. Monica is that…

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Eli Wolff - Director of Power of Sport Lab & US Paralympic Soccer Team member! 1:03:10

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Two-time Paralympian in CP Soccer Eli Wolff led the effort in 2019 for Major League Baseball to change the "disabled list" to the "injured list." What's in the word change? For people with disabilities, it's the difference between being in the game and out of the game. A disability doesn't preclude you from playing and contributing, while an injury…

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Lonnie Mayne - Red Shoes Living Founder 1:09:15

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Lonnie’s father was a second generation pro wrestler–a villain, who turned kind, soft and human with his fans after the match. His uncle was a turnaround executive leading several companies from distress and treating everyone with respect. Lonnie followed his uncle’s path, working to right companies in difficulty for thirty years until he started R…

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Kieth Gabel - World Champion, Paralympian, X Games Gold Medalist! 58:27

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Keith Gabel swept the podium with his US teammates at snowboarding's inaugural Paralympics in Sochi 2014. Almost ten years later, you might think that Grizz is getting grizzled, but he continues to stay fresh incorporating jiu jitsu, meditation along with a fair amount of coffee as he and his wife own their own shop. Keith's journey to success goes…

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Josh Sweeney - Marine, Paralympian in Sled Hockey and XC Skiing, Gold Medalist! 59:56

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Josh Sweeney grew up in Phoenix, AZ, joining the Marines directly after high school. He deployed to Afghanistan with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines as a Scout Sniper in 2009 where he was injured by an IED while on patrol. He sustained severe injuries to his legs and arms resulting in the amputation of both legs above the knees and multiple hand and arm…

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Stan Clawson - Artist, Filmmaker, Activist, Burning Man Utah Mover & Shaker 1:06:15

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Stan Clawson is a Utah filmmaker with nearly 20 years of production experience. He owns his own freelance production company and is currently working on a documentary series. He is also an adjunct film instructor at Salt Lake Community College, with over 14 years of teaching experience. In addition to filmmaking, Stan is also heavily involved in th…

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Gregg Garfield - COVID Patient Zero in LA Given 1% Chance of Living 1:05:37

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Along with twelve buddies on a skiing trip to Val Gardena in Italy, Gregg contracted COVID before anyone knew what to make of it. He’d spend thirty-one days in a coma, waking to an entirely new world, and sixty-four days in the hospital, having to learn to swallow as well as walk. He lost all the fingers on his right hand and all to the one knuckle…

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John Register - Two-Sport 2 x Paralympian & Combat Army Vet! 1:05:05

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John Register is a Silver medalist, two-time, two-sport Paralympic Athlete, two-time Olympic trials qualifier, combat Army veteran, amputee, and the founder of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee's now defunct Paralympic Military Sport Program. Register uses his life experience as an inspirational speaker to inspire people to hurdle …

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Connor Hogan - Connor has cerebral palsy, but nothing slows him down! 1:01:39

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Connor Hogan’s tongue betrays him. It pokes out of his mouth when he’s skiing and mountain biking telegraphing his desired direction. The ski racer with Cerebral Palsy athlete turns perception of disability upside turns perception of disability upside down in his singular desire to go fast as possible, regardless of direction.…

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Spencer Wood - A stroke in the womb to Paralympic World Cup gold! 1:02:17

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Spencer Wood ended up with an absolutely awful haircut as part of a rookie initiation to the World Cup tour. The rules were, he had to keep the cut until he reached the podium. Spencer turned perception of disability upside down by winning his first Paralympic World Cup. A stroke in the womb resulted in hemiplegia, but his ski racing career started…

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Cindy Ehnes - First American Women to win Gold in Paralympic Alpine Skiing 1:03:54

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Cindy Ehnes was the first American woman to win Gold in a Winter Paralympics. Her speed might have been a result of being a Bonne Bell girl, the sporty, outdoor group of girls that skied fast and sold cosmetics. If she lost a race the man got to kiss her. Then Cindy earned a law degree and launched a high-profile career in the healthcare field that…

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Joe Bieganek - President and Founder of Aspen Seating & Ride Designs 1:03:34

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Wheelchair innovator Joe Bieganek was a cop before he became a seating specialist. He turns perception of disability upside down by giving paras and amputees the connection to their equipment to make the impossible possible. Aspen Seating/Ride Designs fits athletes in monoskis, handcycles, hockey sleds and many other sports to maximize performance …

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Marko Cheseto - A talented runner with an incredible story. 1:09:33

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Marko Cheseto lost his cousin to suicide while they were both running at the University of Alaska. Deep in grief, he took some anti-depressants and went for a long run in the woods only to get stuck in a snowstorm, lose his way, consciousness and eventually both of his legs to frostbite. He turned perception of upside down by running a 2:35:55 mara…

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