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Spirit of Titans-Motivating Ironman Athletes

Produced in partnership with joyfulhope.org and Heather Gollnick’s ironedgecoaching.com. It is a motivating film to inspire prospective Ironman athletes and their families of the joy and inspiration felt in training for and competing in the world’s toughest endurance race, the Ironman Triathlon. Swim 2.4 miles, Bike 112 miles, Run 26.2 miles, Brag the rest of your life!

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Ironman – You Will Do This

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Ironman Triathlon Movie Trailer: Living is Winning

Triathlon sports doc featuring former pro-cyclist, Ironman triathlete and Leukemia survivor Andrew Johnston. Winner: Feature Audience Award – Atlanta Film Festival Jury Award: Best Adventure Sports Film – Connecticut FF Winner: Best Local Documentary – Docufest Atlanta 4.75 out of 5: Big Bear Int’l Film Festival Audience Screened at Delray Beach and 540 Film Festival in Arkansas…more to come. DVD on sale now at www.livingiswinning.com. Want reviews? Click on reviews at atlanta.bside.com…

Inspire Yourself : Ironman Triathlete

An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organised by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) consisting of a 2.4 mile (3.9 km) swim, 112 mile (180 km) bike and 26.2 mile (42.2 km) marathon run. Watch how Jason Lester defies all odds to participate in this event.

Inspirational movie on Ironman triathlete Jason Lester

“A Painted Race” is an inspirational 90-minute documentary that will tell the inspiring story of successful artist and Ironman triathlete Jason Lester. This is the amazing account of an intriguing young man who persists through the death of his father, loss of his brother and a debilitating accident. Through the course of his life, Jason is haunted by the same three elements that form the course of a triathlon — a near-death swimming incident, a life-changing bicycle accident, and an …

Robotic Treadmill Helps Once-Paralyzed Woman Walk again

A woman who broke her neck in a trampoline accident has issued a warning to others about the equipment.

With summer fast approaching and the number of home trampolines soaring, Jeanette Sykes urged children to play safely.

Miss Sykes, 39, thought she would be in a wheelchair for life after the accident during a barbecue at a friend's house.

She had been jumping with another person, who stopped moving to talk to someone. Miss Sykes twisted awkwardly and fell.

Doctors told her she would be paralysed, but with the help of a revolutionary piece of equipment she learned to walk again.

She said: "I would never have dreamed something like this can happen on a trampoline. You think you're safe because you are jumping on a soft surface." Miss Sykes said that it was too easy for families to buy a trampoline and put it in the garden without being made aware of the dangers.

She said they should really only be used in gyms under supervision.

"I see they make trampolines with nets around them now but a net would not have saved me," she said. "It's providing a false sense of security.

"I don't want to be a killjoy but they really are that dangerous. I am living proof of that." Scroll down for more…

After the accident in July 2006, Miss Sykes endured a risky operation where doctors inserted screws to support the fracture in her neck.

She then had five months of rehabilitation in the Spinal Injuries Centre at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Then the hospital decided to try her on a piece of equipment it was testing, the Lokomat.

The machine is a Swiss-made robotic harness on a treadmill which allows the patient to walk without the weight of the body and improves mobility. Miss Sykes, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was one of the first in the country to use one. Just four weeks later she was able to walk short distances using crutches.

Two years on she is still unable to return to the hairdressing career she worked at for 18 years, but can walk around unaided.

A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, Roger Vincent, said injuries from trampoline accidents had increased 50 per cent over a five-year period.

He said: "There has been a boom in the number of garden trampolines in the UK and you can buy them everywhere.

"They can be a lot of fun and I don't want to be all doom and gloom but they can be very dangerous if the safety guidelines they are sold with are not followed and respected.

"We recommend that only one person should ever use the trampoline at a time, that it comes with proper safety pads and that it is placed on a soft surface in a clear area."

The Boy With 5 Pairs of Legs

With five pairs of legs, I feel 10 feet tall! The boy, 7, who doesn't let a double amputation hold him back

By Daily Mail Reporter

 

He has short ones for sitting and climbing and long fancy ones for when he wants to run really, really fast.

Cody McCasland was born without a working set of legs – but now has pairs for just about any occasion.

The seven-year-old has a rare condition called Sacral Agenesis which caused deformities to his spine in the womb.

He arrived without any tibia or knee bones and had to have his legs amputated below the knee at 15 months.

Two months later he was fitted with his first pair of prosthetic legs, and hasn't stopped moving since.

His mother Tina, 36, said: 'Hardly anyone takes to prosthetics so well. It was amazing – it was as if Cody had just been waiting for the chance to have new legs so he could walk.'

Cody now manages to run, swim, play soccer, golf, karate and ice hockey as well as being a boy scout and going rock climbing in his home state of Texas, in the U.S.

Mrs McCasland said: 'We've always said whatever Cody wants to do, we will do our best to let him have that opportunity. He won't let his disability hold him back.'

Cody McCasland is already racing against able-bodied children, and hopes to compete in the Paralympics when he is older

As a result of his condition, Cody also needed surgery for a dislocated hip, stomach, gall bladder and intestinal problems and a hernia, as well as treatment for breathing difficulties and asthma.

His legs are provided for him by the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, a specialist limb centre.

These include the blades for running and 'stubbies' for sitting and playing.

Cody said: 'In my walking legs I can take big steps. In my running legs I can run very fast and jump on one leg.'

His mother added: 'They are very expensive and Cody seems to outgrow them all the time. We're very lucky that we have this specialist centre which provides the running legs.'

In return, Cody's family, friends and supporters compete in marathons to raise money for the hospital. They have so far raised £62,000 ($95,000).

Mrs McCasland and her husband Mike, 37, an internet manager, hope to bring Cody to London in 2012 so he can watch the Paralympics.

The determined seven-year-old, who is already gaining good times for his age range, said: 'I'd love to compete in three year's time at swimming.

'I definitely will take part one day and win a gold medal.'

When Cody, was diagnosed Sacral Agenesis, after being born six weeks prematurely, doctors had warned his parents that he might not live.

Children with the condition usually suffer from a number of difficulties including kidney problems and Cody had to undergo the first of his 15 operations at just three days old.

Over the next two years he faced operations for a dislocated hip, stomach, gall bladder and intestinal problems, a hernia, as well as treatment for breathing difficulties and asthma.

Mr and Mrs McCasland, who also have a daughter Callie, two, were warned by a specialist in Texas that Cody might need both lower legs amputated to give him the chance of walking with prosthetic legs.

Social worker Mrs McCasland said: 'He said the right leg was missing a tibia and knee cap.

'The fibula was not enough to support Cody's leg and without a knee, he could not bend it.

'His legs just curved round to the side when he was sitting and it just kind of got in his way.

'His left leg, looked more normal, but the knee did not bend. We were told there may be a chance of surgery to fix that leg but there was no guarantee of success.'

But thanks to his prosthetics, Cody takes part in activities with other children in his class and already beats some of them at running.

He is a member of his school swimming team, competing against able-bodied youngsters despite using just his arms.

Mr McCasland said: 'With the help of Challenged Athletes Foundation Cody will be able to travel to other areas and compete against others like himself at a higher level.

'Each year we take him to the Endeavour Games which is an international competition for children and adults with disabilities. He won gold medals in the 60m and 100m sprints this year and gained a fast enough time to enable him to compete in the National Junior Youth Disability Championships.' 

Cody currently races against youngsters with just one artificial leg, but double amputees hope there will be a reclassification, allowing them to have their own category in the sport.

He ran 60m last year in 20.03 seconds, and 100m at 33.41 seconds, when he was just six years old. This means he was only five or six seconds behind single amputee record-holders aged nine.

Cody's times at freestyle swimming and back stroke are already impressive at around 30 seconds and 43.63 seconds. He has knocked 30 seconds off his freestyle time since starting swimming last June and is now only a short way behind the nine-year-old record holder.

He has already met his sporting hero, triathlete Rudy Garcia-Tolson, a double amputee who has competed in two Paralympics by the age of just 20.

The courageous youngster, who wants to become a doctor when he is older, said: 'I'm a non-stop runner and no-one can keep up with me.

'I'd also love to swim in a race against Michael Phelps or Rudy Garcia-Tolson one day.'

Cody's amazing achievements as a double amputee are inspiring numerous others from disabled children, to soldiers who have lost limbs in Afghanistan or Iraq.

'We receive lots of requests from people wanting to meet Cody,' revealed Mrs McCasland. 'It really is incredible to see this little boy walking up to grown men and telling them they can do all the things he does.

'Soldiers are just like big heroes to Cody, so he is so excited to meet them. And in a way he's a little hero to them too.'

The young athlete has even inspired the creation of Team Cody, a group of fundraisers who compete in marathons, already raising $95,000 for the Texas Scottish Rite Children's Hospital.

Team Cody has also raised $4,000 for the Challenge Athletes Foundation, which helps disabled sports people.

'As long as Cody enjoys his sports, we'll go on supporting him,' said Mrs McCasland. 'We hope his story helps other kids and adults, and spreads the message that disabled people can do all these things.'

 

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