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He had the right accoutrements: the Giro helmet, the warm sweatshirt, the puffy gloves and the trendy ski pants. And he had the right slightly-nihilistic attitude: He refused the helmet until his instructors talked him into it.
The only thing different about Samudio was his legs.
He just had one of them – the left one. The other leg was amputated below the knee after his Humvee was hit by a grenade Dec. 1, 2008, in Western Baghdad.
“I just got my prosthetic last week… Details
Stop me if this sounds familiar: A U.S. skier blows away the competition and wins a World Cup overall title with the Winter Olympics looming in the distance. Predicting gold in all five races is far from a stretch. Suddenly, a story about celebrating and champagne bubbles to the top of the story.
“I feel,†Lindsey Vonn said Thursday, “like I’m pretty much the exact opposite of Bode Miller.â€
The soft laughter in the background is unmistakable, even though she’s chuckling into a phone halfway around the world. Everybody else who knows what Vonn is about—hard work and nothing but—might not find the comparison so amusing… Details