After a devastating injury, sprinter April Holmes rebounded and achieved her Olympic dreams. Her story will impress all.  Holmes, who won a gold medal in the 100-meter dash at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, was the featured motivational speaker last weekend at the U.S. Olympic Committee’s (USOC) Finding Leaders Among Minorities Everywhere (F.L.A.M.E.) program. The full article can be found at http://teamusa.org/news/article/14854 with an excerpt below.

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April Holmes took off her leg like it was nothing. She handed it over to a student, who didn’t know what to do with it.

“Don’t worry,” Holmes said, “it won’t bite you.”

After gathering himself for a moment, the student grabbed the Paralympic gold medalist’s prosthetic leg and passed it around to the rest of the students sitting in a meeting room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Holmes, who won a gold medal in the 100-meter dash at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, was the featured motivational speaker last weekend at the U.S. Olympic Committee’s (USOC) Finding Leaders Among Minorities Everywhere (F.L.A.M.E.) program.

The event brought together 30 minority student leaders from across the country to explore the Olympic ideals of persistence, commitment, vision, focus and determination. (The article continues at http://teamusa.org/news/article/14854)