Snowboarding

WATCH: Kaitlyn Farrington’s Life After Retiring

by
USSA
2015-08-13 15:30
 

Kaitlyn Farrington was a killer rider on the U.S. Snowboarding team who unexpectedly made the 2015 Olympic halfpipe team…and took home a gold medal. But after Sochi, she was in Austria, where she caught an edge going off a jump. She crashed and lost all feeling from the neck down for two minutes. An X-ray led to the discovery of congenital cervical stenosis—a condition where her spinal column is too narrow, causing her spinal cord to kink or pinch. Doctors said that halfpipe snowboarding could paralyze her if she continued competing, and Farrington retired in January 2015.

People Magazine met with Farrington to see what her life is like and how her diagnosis didn’t stop her from loving snowboarding and achieving new heights.

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