'It can be just as exciting as the Olympics': What a Paralympian wishes audiences knew
Paralympic wheelchair racer Daniel Romanchuk chases his dreams at any distance, long or short, and on every possible surface, road or track.
Paralympic wheelchair racer Daniel Romanchuk chases his dreams at any distance, long or short, and on every possible surface, road or track.
Just like the 11,000 athletes who descended on Paris for the Olympic Games this summer, Romanchuk has trained for this moment his entire life.
He just hopes the world will tune in.
“It can be just as exciting as the Olympics to watch,” Romanchuk said of the Paralympic Games. “We’re both elite athletes, and we both have the same goal. We might just reach that goal in a slightly different way. I have a racing chair, you know, instead of running.”
Romanchuk, 26, was born with spina bifida, a birth defect that affects the spine. As a child growing up in Maryland, he participated in an adaptive sports program for children with disabilities called Bennett Blazers, whose motto was: "Teach someone they can before someone tells them they can't."
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