Team Hoyt: An Inspiring Story of Courage
My cousin sent me this link today to a YouTube video of Team Hoyt, the father/son team who compete in triathlons. Truly amazing. The son, Rick, was brain damaged at birth in 1962, when he was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. The doctors gave the family no hope and told his parents he should be institutionalized.
Instead, a group of Tufts University engineers discovered the boy’s cognitive abilities and built him a computer so he could communicate. He was brilliant, trapped inside a physically disabled body. In 1975, the two began to run in races — the father pushing the son in a wheelchair.
They eventually began to compete in triathlons, and have now competed in over 900 events! This video on YouTube is one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll never be the same.
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