Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/TWJpHS Amped: A Soldier's Race for Gold in the Shadow of War A Soldier's Race for Gold in the Shadow of War By: Kortney Clemons; Bill Briggs Publisher: Wiley (Turner Publishing) Print ISBN: 9780470281376, 0470281375 eText ISBN: 9780470378809, 0470378808 Edition: 1st Pages: 288 Copyright year: 2008 Format: EPUB Available from $ 14.99 USD SKU 9780470378809 When above-the-knee amputeeswalk, we generate seven to nine times the force of our body weight right into the point where the prosthesis meets our residual leg. For me, that's almost 1,500 pounds slamming into that socket. For any amputee, learning to walk with a prosthetic leg is a painful, grueling ordeal. Soon after army medic Kortney Clemons, who lost his right leg to a roadside bomb in Baghdad, began the process, he had more than walking in mind. He wanted to run, and run fast. Barely three years after the awful attack that changed his life forever, he aimed to join the elite corps of international athletes vying for gold in the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. His account of his recovery from this catastrophic wound and his drive to become the first Iraq veteran to win Paralympic gold is one of the most remarkable, inspiring, and compelling stories in the history of sports. Additional ISBNs 9781630260422, 9781630268725, 1630260428, 1630268720
