US EditionSidney runner helps visually impaired American chase Boston Marathon dream
- Kyle Coon, a visually impaired athlete from Colorado, will compete in the Boston Marathon with the support of his Canadian guide, Nico Lightbody, marking his return after a seven-year break.
- This year's marathon will be Kyle Coon's first in the para-elite division and symbolizes cooperation between the U.S. and Canada.
- Coon aims for a personal best and has participated in endurance sports since 2014, while Lightbody helps him navigate the course, ensuring safety from obstacles.
- Coon emphasizes their friendship and partnership, highlighting the power of teamwork across borders.
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In the lobby of the first floor of the Anton Tomaž Linhart Primary School in Radovljica, first-graders are sitting and watching with interest what is happening on the stage in front of them. A blind lady they don't know walks up to them with a guide dog and introduces herself in beautiful Slovenian: "I am Victoria Harrison, the British ambassador, and this is my assistant Otto. Otto is three years old and represents my eyes, because I can't see."
Very early in his life, shortly after losing his sight at the age of six, the businessman from Rio Eurico Cunha, now 81 years old, came to the conclusion that it was better to stop fantasizing, to assume blindness - and not to underestimate himself. At 12, when he was left alone to sleep for the first time away from his family, in the huge lobby of the Benjamin Constant Institute (IBC) — the pioneering school for the blind in Rio de Janeiro — he…
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