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Millie Knight

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Millie Knight was born in Centarbury, Kent, England, 15 January 1999.  She is now 24 years old, and her nationality is British. When she was just a year old, she had an infection in her right eye and lost the majority of sight in that eye. Five years later, the same thing happened to the left eye. So her sight now is pretty rubbish. She started skiing at six years old, and ended up being really inlove with it.  She contacted the charity, Disability Snowsports UK and spoke to Sean Rose at the ski show in London 2010. Later, she was invited on to the Britush Disabled Ski Team Development Squad in 2011 and started racing in November 2012 with her mom as her guide. Millue now ski with her guide Brett Wild who has been released by The Royal Navy for the next 4 years. They communicate with each other using Sena Bluetooth technology so that she know what the conditions are like on the piste and if there any lumps, bumps, and obstacles on the snow. Education Kings School Canterbury ha...

Alana Nichols

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Alana Nichols is a world-class athlete with a passion for challenging herself and others. She was born in March 21, 1983. She's known as America's  Triple Threat Athlete in Alpine Skiing, Basketball and Sprint Kayaking.  She has dozens of achievements, such as Gold Medal 2007 Parapan American Games, Gold Medal Wheelchair Basketball in  2008 Paralympic Summer Games, and she received Two Gold Medals: Downhill & Giant Slalom; Silver Medal Super-G; Bronze Medal Super Combined at Paralympic Winter Games 2010. Other than medals collector, she has received some titles, such as National Champion (Downhill and Super-G) in 2009, Paralympic Athlete of the Year and Colorado Sports Woman of the Year in 2011. Alana Nichols grew up in Farmington, New Mexico living an active lifestyle by participating in multiple athletics and having a passion for skiing and snowboarding. In 2000 during a ski trip in Colorado, she suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury while snowboarding, par...