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Comparing team sizes, Russia listed 83 athletes, USA included 80, Canada logged 49, and Ukraine listed 23.
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Matthias Lanzinger, a former able bodied Austrian skiing champion, lost one leg in a crash during a competition. Using a prosthesis, he sandwiched to adaptive skiing. He says of the sit skiers at the 2014 Games:
But the sitting category are all absolutely crazy heroes.
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