CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – Many Para athletes don’t discover the Paralympics until later in life. That is not the case for Audrey Crowley.
Born without her lower right arm, she watched Paralympic skiing highlights with her dad as a child to see how they did it differently from able-bodied skiers.
And now Crowley, 19 years old, has made her debut at the Milano Cortina Winter Games, where she collected three top 10 finishes, including the Alpine combined (fifth), downhill (sixth) and super-G (eighth).
Skiing in Cortina is a moment that she has looked forward to her entire life.
“This is a really big opportunity to show everyone what I'm capable of, what I've been working towards,” Crowley said.
