Colombian ex-guerrilla and soldier left disabled in an attack seeks podium finish at Tokyo 2021
24 November 2020 |
11:52 am
After fleeing the guerrilla group that forcibly recruited him as a teenager, Juan Jose Florian joined the Colombian Army, but then lost his forearms, a leg and an eye in a bomb attack on his family home. Now, he trains non-stop as a professional cyclist to take out the gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics.
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