Documented encouraging sports stories

NicksDad1970 · #1 07-31-2007, 10:03 AM

I'm looking for stories for my son to read about athletes who overcame a lot to make it in sports.

Like MJ getting cut from HS JV team beacuse he wasn't good enough.

Another was the ND Rudy story.

I'd love to hear more and links if possible.

Yeti · #2 07-31-2007, 10:04 AM

the video of that autistic(?) kid draining all those 3 pointers?

psuasskicker · #3 07-31-2007, 10:09 AM

Lance

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Punker · #4 07-31-2007, 10:12 AM

Jim Abbott.

4_2_it · #5 07-31-2007, 10:18 AM

Team Hoyt

RicoTubbs · #6 07-31-2007, 10:19 AM

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who wants to race in the 400 meters at the Olympics, will work with the IAAF to ensure his prosthetic racing legs do not give him an unfair advantage.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tracka...ory?id=2949843

Yeti · #7 07-31-2007, 10:27 AM

good call on lance, 'it's not about the bike' is a realllllly good book.

vozzie · #8 07-31-2007, 10:37 AM

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I really don't know if you want one of the greatest fraudes in history to be a rollmodel for your kid.

If you want a real story of perseverance than you should read the story of Marc Herremans.

The guy ended up in 6th place at his first iron man in Hawai back in 2001. In 2002 he got parilized from the chest down. In 2006 he won the iron main in his wheelchair...

http://www.ironman.com/events/ironman70....rp-ironman-70.3

Yads · #9 07-31-2007, 10:45 AM

Mario Lemieux

jbrent33 · #10 07-31-2007, 11:02 AM

Jeff Blatnick is a pretty good story.

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After graduating from Niskayuna, he attended and wrestled for Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. After winning national titles in NCAA Division II, he qualified for the 1980 Olympic team which boycotted the games. In 1982, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, prompting the removal of his spleen and appendix.

After radiation therapy helped to hold the cancer in remission, Blatnick competed in and won a gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. He and his teammate, Steve Fraser, were the first Americans to ever win gold in Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling history.

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