“Now that it’s going to be on NBC it is going to open people’s eyes to who we are as athletes,” Paralympic snowboard cross hopeful Evan Strong said of the Paralympic Games broadcast coverage announcement. Evan Strong had been an amputee for only a few months when, on the rack at a Blockbuster store in Maui, he found “Murderball,” the Oscar-nominated documentary about the U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby Team.
“I think I watched it about four times in the two days I had it as a rental,” he said.
Strong had been a professional skateboarder before the motorcycle he was riding was hit by an SUV in November 2004, resulting in the then-17-year-old having his left leg amputated just below the knee. But the scenes in "Murderball" of the 2004 Paralympic Games — particularly those scenes showing the amputee runners — opened his mind to a whole new side of competitive sports."
“That was the first time I got an understanding of what the Paralympics were, and the gravity that they held,” he said.
Less than a decade later, Strong is a leading candidate to represent the United States at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in snowboard cross, a discipline of alpine skiing.
With an agreement announced Tuesday by the International Paralympic Committee, viewers in the United States will for the first time have an opportunity to watch live and same-day coverage throughout the 10-day event.
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By Chros McDougall | Sep 24, 2013, 10:00 AM ET
Chrös McDougall has been a writer and editor for TeamUSA.org since 2009 on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc. He is based in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
“I think I watched it about four times in the two days I had it as a rental,” he said.
Strong had been a professional skateboarder before the motorcycle he was riding was hit by an SUV in November 2004, resulting in the then-17-year-old having his left leg amputated just below the knee. But the scenes in "Murderball" of the 2004 Paralympic Games — particularly those scenes showing the amputee runners — opened his mind to a whole new side of competitive sports."
“That was the first time I got an understanding of what the Paralympics were, and the gravity that they held,” he said.
Less than a decade later, Strong is a leading candidate to represent the United States at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in snowboard cross, a discipline of alpine skiing.
With an agreement announced Tuesday by the International Paralympic Committee, viewers in the United States will for the first time have an opportunity to watch live and same-day coverage throughout the 10-day event.
Read More:
By Chros McDougall | Sep 24, 2013, 10:00 AM ET
Chrös McDougall has been a writer and editor for TeamUSA.org since 2009 on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc. He is based in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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