This is a story for many sport fans and for people in general that is truely inspirational. Born with one hand at birth, at a young age, Kevin Laue, determine he wanted to play basketball.
At the age of 8, he was playing on 5 teams. He recently graduated from a military academy in the US, and just signed a scholarship to attend Manhattan College.
At 6'11" and 232 in weight, Laue has all the other requirements to be a excellent college basketball player. He is just short one hand. But he has learn to accomendate for this bit shortness well.
bodleingGreater Manchester, England UK13,810 posts
Yes, these kind of people are truly an inspiration.
This man for instance...double amputee yet top mountaineer.
Norman Croucher is a mountain climber who, despite being a double amputee with two prosthetic legs below the knee, set out to climb Cho Oyu, one of the world's 14 mountains which exceed 8,000 metres.
Born in 1941 and educated at Redruth Grammar School, both of his legs were severed below the knee by a train after he collapsed in a drunken stupor on a Wiltshire railway line in 1960. He became the first person fitted with artificial limbs to walk the 900 miles from John O'Groats to Lands End in 1969. Six months later he climbed the Jungfrau and the Mönch mountains in Switzerland and in 1972 he scaled the treacherous west flank of the Eiger. Two years later he also conquered the Matterhorn. Writing about him, Chris Bonington was quoted as stating "There is no one like him, his extraordinary achievements have earned him a place in climbing history." He has climbed many other mountains, including peaks in the Himalayas and these are comprehensively listed on his official website.
Twice voted Association of Disability and Rehabilitation 'Man of the Year' -in 1971 and 1978 - he was also awarded an OBE for his voluntary work with the disabled in 1977. In 1979 he was chosen from nominees from 121 countries as one of only three people in the world to receive an International Award for Valour in Sport. He was the subject of the BBC TV programme This Is Your Life in May 1976 and he is also available as a powerful Motivational Speaker for both company events and after dinner speeches.
bodleing: Yes, these kind of people are truly an inspiration.
This man for instance...double amputee yet top mountaineer.
Norman Croucher is a mountain climber who, despite being a double amputee with two prosthetic legs below the knee, set out to climb Cho Oyu, one of the world's 14 mountains which exceed 8,000 metres.
Born in 1941 and educated at Redruth Grammar School, both of his legs were severed below the knee by a train after he collapsed in a drunken stupor on a Wiltshire railway line in 1960. He became the first person fitted with artificial limbs to walk the 900 miles from John O'Groats to Lands End in 1969. Six months later he climbed the Jungfrau and the Mönch mountains in Switzerland and in 1972 he scaled the treacherous west flank of the Eiger. Two years later he also conquered the Matterhorn. Writing about him, Chris Bonington was quoted as stating "There is no one like him, his extraordinary achievements have earned him a place in climbing history." He has climbed many other mountains, including peaks in the Himalayas and these are comprehensively listed on his official website.
Twice voted Association of Disability and Rehabilitation 'Man of the Year' -in 1971 and 1978 - he was also awarded an OBE for his voluntary work with the disabled in 1977. In 1979 he was chosen from nominees from 121 countries as one of only three people in the world to receive an International Award for Valour in Sport. He was the subject of the BBC TV programme This Is Your Life in May 1976 and he is also available as a powerful Motivational Speaker for both company events and after dinner speeches.
bodleingGreater Manchester, England UK13,810 posts
ttom500: Maybe these guys have learned in life that there is more on the inside to a person than there is on the outside?
Precisely.
When after my injury earlier this year and I was hobbling around on crutches, I often thought about Croucher. If nothing else, it stopped me feeling sorry for myself.
When after my injury earlier this year and I was hobbling around on crutches, I often thought about Croucher. If nothing else, it stopped me feeling sorry for myself.
In most cases, someone has it worse than ourselves.
ttom500: This is a story for many sport fans and for people in general that is truely inspirational. Born with one hand at birth, at a young age, Kevin Laue, determine he wanted to play basketball.
I corrected the URL. Somehow you mistyped or accidentally replaced the "v" in "rivals" with a "y".
I am not being critical of you or other posters, but I don't understand why stories like this are called "inspirational". That sounds like people are pitying him or are surprised that he isn't wallowing in self-pity.
My opinion of him was the same before and after reading it: he's just somebody getting on with life and getting things done, dealing with the reality of his situation and the tools he has to get it done. He's admirable, but he's not remarkable.
sideshowbob1st house on the left, Tasman New Zealand337 posts
Jonah Lomu, street kid-- while he was growing up in Otara because he's part Tongan his childhood ilk against Samoans and visa versa used to cut off heads with machettes, Otara shopping centre (Otara chopping Centre). He suffered kidney disease and at the age of 38+ he's still playing rugby.
He's 128 kilos, 6'4 and he doesn't wear a helmet or pads, he's fast and a freak of nature. The most gentile but hard man that deserves respect.
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At the age of 8, he was playing on 5 teams. He recently graduated from a military academy in the US, and just signed a scholarship
to attend Manhattan College.
At 6'11" and 232 in weight, Laue has all the other requirements to be a excellent college basketball player. He is just short one hand. But he has learn to accomendate for this bit shortness well.
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