Allison Jones of the U.S. disabled alpine team is once again focused on her winter sport of ski racing less than two months after pulling off a rare feat in sports: earning a medal in both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. Jones, who won two silver medals in super G and giant slalom in 2002 in Salt Lake City, gold in slalom at the 2006 Paralympics and earned the silver medal in the 24-kilometer cycling event this past August in Beijing, the race was hard fought, and extremely hot. "It was 110 degrees on the dam where the race started and it was 105 degrees on the backside. We try to train for the heat but that was beyond what anyone expected," Jones says. "When the race started I knew it was my one shot to get a medal. It was the race where I knew I had to lay it all out on the line." Jones gave it her all in the...
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