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Episode Synopsis
While serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, Chris Young was paralyzed in a plane crash in Alaska. He began adaptive skiing in 1986 and was named to the U.S. Disabled Ski Team in 1989. At the 1994 Winter Paralympics, Young won a gold medal in slalom. He would win another gold medal at the 2002 Winter Paralympic Games in Super G. Among his many other titles and wins, he won the X Games in 2015 in monoski. He has also gone on to coach a number of other Paralympians and adaptive athletes and in December 2023 was inducted into the Adaptive Sports Hall of Fame.
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