Huge applauding and enormous shouting of Congratulations coming your way Lantz...Way to go!
Lantz Lamback has been swimming upstream since he was a child.
Only now, he's getting medals for it.
The 22-year-old Augustan with cerebral palsy won several medals, including a gold, and set a new world's record in the 100-meter backstroke this week at the Paralympic Games in Beijing.
The Olympics themselves get the lion's share of the world's attention, and for good reason: They're the world's greatest athletes. But the superb athletes at the Paralympics may be the world's greatest achievers. They overcome not only various degrees of disability, but also the low expectations that society can often wrongly foist on them.
In working for years, training for months at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and then adding to his two medals from 2004, Lantz Lamback defeated both disability and doubt -- perhaps his and the world's.
No qualifiers are necessary: Our Lantz is one of the elite athletes in the world.
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Huge applauding and enormous shouting of Congratulations coming your way Lantz...Way to go!
How can we not be proud of Lantz for his tremendous achievements. Augusta is proud of its home town hero. Congratulations!
No people are any more proud of Lantz than are his mother Donna, his dad Fred, his sister Julie, his brother Paul, his Granddaddy Bill and the rest of his family!
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