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October 15, 2005
Downhill from here: Brooklyn amputee, victim of a 1992 shooting, striving to make the Paralympic alpine ski team
The bullet "definitely changed my life," he said, yet in ways that are no more logical than the shooting itself. At 28, Green not only remains an athlete, but a world-class athlete at that, in the unlikely endeavor of disabled alpine skiing, and is the first black man on that sport's national team. From a dark, rainy, violent night in Bedford-Stuyvesant, he has come to a Rocky Mountain High: He lives in Vail, trains nearby, loves snow and wants to settle for good in the mountains.
Ski officials expect he will compete on the U.S. team at the Paralympic Games in Turin, Italy, in March.
Posted by Michelle at October 15, 2005 06:04 PM