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! …
Andre Kajlich just became the first wheelchair bound athlete to finish Ultraman Canada. He has become an amazing athlete who, since losing both legs above the knee in a subway accident in 2003 in Prague, is always looking for the very best way to push himself to the very limit of his endurance. As you’ll…
Jim MacLaren – at one time the world’s fastest amputee triathlete – passed away on August 31, 2010 at the age of 47. His life was short but amazingly impactful. The Challenged Athletes Foundation is Jimmy’s legacy. I‘m proud to say that, through the athletes we help every day, his impact will live on forever.…
David Bailey was one of the top motocross racers in the world when he was paralyzed during an early season race in 1987. He came on to chat about his early days in motocross, his classic race in 1986 against Ricky Johnson in Anaheim Stadium in front of 70,000 people plus the accident, and how…
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…
Tim Mantoani has been taking amazing photographs of Challenged Athletes for 20 years. His incredible eye has captured powerful and inspirational images of these amazing athletes. One athlete that Tim has been photographing for a long time is Rudy Garcia-Tolson. When we heard about one of Tim’s new projects, Snapshot, we knew it…