By Foon Rhee, Associate editor
Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee
July 1, 2012
Noah Bailey didn't want to say much about how he lost both
his legs to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan 6 1/2 years ago, or how he's tried
to cope since.
That was before Angela Madsen, a fellow veteran twice his
age, patiently tutored him on the finer points of the shot put: the hip turn,
the chest thrust, the push off the fingertips for a higher arc. Strapped into a
padded chair anchored in a Sacramento field, with only his right prosthetic leg
on the ground for leverage, Bailey threw farther and farther as Madsen, one of
the world's best in her event, encouraged him. Read more here…
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