Omar Bermejo; Marine vet goes to Sochi
ABC News sends us a link to their continuing series of stories about veterans “Standing Up For Heroes“. This installment is about Omar Bermejo, a Marine veteran with 9 years of service. He lost his arm in a motorcycle accident after he had completed four tours of Iraq. Now he’s going to Sochi for the Team USA Paralympic Nordic skiers in the biathlon.
Bermejo started skiing as part of his physical therapy. In the beginning he didn’t know much about the sport but the moment he stepped into those tracks and took his first ski steps he says he said, “Oh, I’m going to like this.”
The longest race he’s done since was a 20k biathlon individual race. “There’s several cross country skiing races that have been tougher but any race that lasts more than two hours I love. You have to find it within yourself and be reminded of who you are and what drives you in order to finish this type of race,” says Bermejo.
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Should have sent him over to augment Russian forces kicking terrorist’s teeth through their skull.
Oorah
A Biathlon is cross country skiing and shooting a rifle right? I get the skiing but how is he going to do the rifle part especially when tired from the skiing and make a great score?
Totally impressed.
I’ve done a lot of endurance sports over the years, triathlons (half ironman was the longest) Cycling (440 mile, 4 day ride was the longest) and I’ve done a lot of cross country skiing (never a race though) and I have to say, skiing is as grueling as anything. I can’t even imagine shooting targets in the middle of that with 2 good arms let alone 1. Way to go Marine, do us proud!