Team Hoyt

If you don’t have enough of a tear-jerker among your Korean drama down­loads, or you are sim­ply inured to so many oth­er­wise mov­ing things in life, then you have to be told the story of Team Hoyt.

Rick Hoyt was born severely dis­abled and his par­ents were told he would live in a per­ma­nently veg­e­ta­tive state. His par­ents thought oth­er­wise, and believed their intel­li­gent son was merely trapped in a body that his mind couldn’t con­trol. They were right, and the mir­a­cle didn’t stop there.

When they man­aged to rig a com­puter up so that Rick could ‘speak’ to them by tap­ping out let­ters, they dis­cov­ered he was a sports fan, and then some. After Rick got his father to run his first road race with him (Dick push­ing his son in a wheel­chair), he said, “Dad, when we were run­ning, it felt like I was not dis­abled anymore.”

Team Hoyt has since com­peted in 85+ marathons, 200+ triathlons and Iron Man events. I’ll leave you to read the rest of their sto­ries. They moved me, and they should you too.

Wikipedia
Team Hoyt Offi­cial Page
Rick Reilly’s Article