Friday, May 16, 2014

Bronze Boys Of Prairie Du Chien

From http://www.teamusa.org/News/2014/May/14/Bronze-Boys-Of-Prairie-Du-Chien

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, is a portrait of small-town America. It’s the type of place where everyone waves to each other, where people marry their high school sweetheart, where blue-collar men work at the local factory. Set along the eastern banks of the Mississippi River, the town is home to less than 6,000 people — making it highly unlikely, by just about any statistical calculation, that even one Olympic bronze medalist would come from there. Imagine the odds of two.

More than that, imagine that those two just happened to have graduated in the same class of less than 130 kids. Such is the case for Matt Antoine, 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in skeleton, and Joe Delagrave, 2012 Paralympic bronze medalist in wheelchair rugby. Their stories are the same. Their stories are very different.

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http://www.teamusa.org/News/2014/May/14/Bronze-Boys-Of-Prairie-Du-Chien

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