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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
While a few of his former teammates were competing for gold, silver and bronze, Sean Busby was rounding out a set hardly any Olympian can dream of.
It started 10,500 feet high at a base camp and ended hours later on his snowboard in Morocco’s Toubkal National Park.
By riding the highest mountain range in North Africa, Busby became the first person with Type 1 diabetes to snowboard on all seven continents.
“When I finally got back, I got texts about Vic getting double gold medals and that sort of stuff,” Busby said of his friend, Vic Wild, the American-born rider who won two snowboarding golds for his adopted country of Russia. “But while I was up there, I had no connection to the outside world.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...0e0c9a-b002-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html
It started 10,500 feet high at a base camp and ended hours later on his snowboard in Morocco’s Toubkal National Park.
By riding the highest mountain range in North Africa, Busby became the first person with Type 1 diabetes to snowboard on all seven continents.
“When I finally got back, I got texts about Vic getting double gold medals and that sort of stuff,” Busby said of his friend, Vic Wild, the American-born rider who won two snowboarding golds for his adopted country of Russia. “But while I was up there, I had no connection to the outside world.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...0e0c9a-b002-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html