Tag: adaptive athlete

Former football player Derek Loccident had to learn the value of patience after becoming an amputee. The lesson paid off ...

Paralympic veteran Scout Bassett wasn’t interested in writing a tragedy-to-triumph amputee memoir. Her new book, Lucky Girl, offers practical advice ...

The new Sports Science and High Performance Lab will gather advanced data to help adaptive athletes optimize performance at every ...

Sarah Doherty’s truest worth is measured not in the summits she conquered, but in the hearts she touched. The pioneering ...

Above-knee amputee Lasse Madsen couldn't find a running blade that was priced for recreational athletes like him—so he designed one ...

Amputees of all ages, from casual riders to elite athletes, are discovering handcycling’s potential to bring more freedom and mobility ...

Purdy graced the cover of Amplitude’s inaugural edition and has routinely appeared in our coverage. Here are our favorite articles ...

A number of impressive newcomers have earned their berths on Team USA. Here are the first-time Winter Paralympians we're most ...

A childhood cancer survivor and above-knee amputee, Thomas Walsh is an all-around ski talent who can vie for the podium ...

Amputee employees Richard Ramsay and Sarah Reinertsen helped develop a transformative Nike product line—and flipped the paradigm on inclusive design.

Amputee hockey star Kevin Herbert is staging a comeback to spark renewed interest in stand-up hockey for amputees.

If the Paralympic athletes sponsored by Össur and Ottobock were regarded as independent nations, both teams would have ranked among ...

Hardly anyone remembers the name of the first person who ever played college football in NCAA Division I on a ...

Now that the Paralympics have gotten the sort of coverage they always deserved, does anybody still doubt whether these events ...

Team USA's final medal Paralympic medal count ended up at 104, with 37 golds. Both figures rank as the second-highest ...

Through 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic/Paralympics were always held in the same calendar year. It was only in 1994 ...

Amputee athlete Katie Holloway fought doggedly to raise Paralympic athletes' medal bonuses to the same level as Olympic athletes. Here's ...

Amputee athlete Femita Ayanbeku surprised everyone, including herself, by making the 2016 Paralympic team. For the 2020 Paralympics, no one ...

Think you’re too out of shape to get active as an amputee? You might think again after viewing our photos ...

We combed US athletes' Instagram feeds to get a sense of their highs and lows in the wake of the ...

Amputee athlete Trenten Merrill thinks athletes and fans would benefit from a joint national meet that brings Olympians and Paralympians ...

The Tokyo Paralympics are part of a larger, more important story: the normalization of limb difference and the changing cultural ...

Paralympic athletes are used to making adaptions, and the pandemic was no different. Some even used the down time to ...

Iraq War veteran and three-time Paralympian Melissa Stockwell sees a lot of overlap between the duty to promote American values ...

Amputee athlete Desmond Jackson is blazing trails and advancing the cause of cultural inclusion for amputees, people with disabilities, and ...

In an exclusive interview, NBC Olympics president Gary Zenkel discusses the trends driving the network's beefed-up coverage of the Tokyo ...

Not many Paralympic sprinters have also starred in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. That’s the remarkable journey of Katy Sullivan, a ...

While there’s never much actual reality in reality-based programming, the genre has nonetheless delivered a dollop of truth about limb ...

The NCAA's nonsensical eligibility guidelines left Paralympic medal contender Hunter Woodhall with only one logical choice: turn pro.

He won't turn 16 until May, but Ezra Frech already has a higher profile than most Paralympic athletes. As the ...

When COVID put the Paralympics on hold, amputee athlete Hunter Woodhall didn’t need long to figure out how to rechannel ...

By Élan Young While many people drift aimlessly through life, those who discover their passion and sense of purpose bring ...

By Elizabeth Bokfi “With treatment, you have a 50/50 chance of survival past three years.” Such words can pack a ...

LOSS OF A LIMB IS MORE THAN A PHYSICAL LOSS. While the change in a person’s body is obvious, it ...