Marie Wright can’t stop smiling and everyone around her notices — it’s just who she’s always been. Positive, upbeat and excited about what’s to come in life. At 57 years old, Wright is living out a lifelong dream as the lead for Canada’s wheelchair curling team at the Paralympic Games in South Korea. On […]
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Canadian Paralympian Mac Marcoux hopes to build on Sochi success
Mac Marcoux has always had a need for speed. While growing up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Marcoux and his family raced around on go-carts, dirt bikes and snowmobiles. If it went fast, Marcoux wanted to be a part of it. But that rush of zipping around hit a speed bump when he was eight […]
A US Paralympian designed Team USA’s snowboard prosthetics
Mike Schultz was a professional snowmobile racer, and a damn good one at that. But in 2008, his life’s course took a turn after a competition accident shattered his left knee and left him clinging to life. When his injuries began causing his kidneys to shut down, doctors decided to amputate the leg just above […]
‘I don’t want to suffer any more’– Belgian Paralympian Marieke Vervoort ready to be euthanized
A Belgian Paralympic athlete who suffers from an incurable form of progressive tetraplegia has revealed she is ready to be euthanised to get over the pain which has become unbearable. Marieke Vervoort who won four Paralympic medals, including the coveted gold in London in 2012, signed euthanasia papers in 2008 so she can decide when to […]