No Excuses
WORLD PREMEIRE
No Excuses
travels with the 2002
U.S. Disabled Ski Team across Europe, Canada
and the United States through a three-month World Cup season that culminates at
the Salt Lake City Paralympic Games - where paralyzed, amputee and visually
impaired racers reach speeds of up to 70 mph on the Olympic downhill course.
During this historic season, the 22 athletes on the U.S. team compete to win
their fourth straight Nations Cup and to win acceptance of disabled skiing as
legitimate sport. No Excuses portrays six featured athletes as they
see themselves: fierce competitors accepting neither pity nor excuses. Sensing a
singular opportunity to change the way their sport in particular and disabled
people in general are often viewed - as 'oddities' -
Chris Devlin Young,
Lacey Heward,
Lee Joiner,
Jason Lalla,
Joe Tompkins and
Chris Waddell
share both intense and intimate moments during this extraordinary season.
No Excuses captures the individual struggle of athletic endeavor and an
honest acknowledgement of grief without the sentiment and pity common in typical
media coverage of the disabled
- Quoted from The No Excuses Web site at:
http://www.noexcusesmovie.com/film.html
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