Rudy Garcia-Tolson decided last year to try to qualify in two Paralympic sports, on the track and in swimming. With heats and qualifying events before the finals, he’s competing more than a dozen times in the two weeks of the 2012 Games.
MEDAL QUEST shares the stories of Paralympic athletes and follows them to the Paralympic Games. Competing individually and in teams, in sports that range from biathlon and sled hockey in the Winter Games, to judo and wheelchair rugby in Summer, these American athletes personify the grit, the strategy, and the skill it takes to go for the gold.
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