To me, what The Challenged Athletes Foundation does so well is to provide independence to people facing unbelievable challenges in their lives. I invited three amazing athletes to come in studio to talk about what they have had to overcome along the way. Roderick Sewell, Rudy Garcia-Tolson and Blake Leeper are three athletes with no legs…
In 1998, 1999 and 2000, Carlos Moleda and David Bailey had three classic races at the Ironman Triathlon World Championship. The fact that Bailey was a former motocross star and Moleda had been a Navy SEAL added depth to an already great story. The rivalry between these two great athletes made the handcycles and the…
Rudy Garcia-Tolson is a double above knee amputee who has won two gold and one silver medal in the Paralympics in the 200 IM. Blake Leeper, his roommate, has won a Bronze at 200 meters and a silver at 400 meters in the London Paralympics and is a double below knee amputee. The two were…
Lauren O’Connor is the Director of Marketing for GU, which has partnered with Strava to create an awesome fundraising program for CAF. In the first 24 hours of the program being live, 18,000 people signed up at strava.com to ride and run and raise money for CAF. The goal is to raise $50,000! …
Recently, a friend sent me a link to a piece of video from what we think was Robin William’s first ever triathlon experience at the Malibu Triathlon in 1997 where he rode the bike on a relay team with two-time Ironman champion and great friend Scott Tinley. In the video were triathlon legends Paula Newby-Fraser and Wendy…