Kevan Hueftle

And when you're already 30-some years old, that you're too old to be training in the first place for this, and you're already on a schedule that's insane for years of you doing it. Because I wasn't athletic enough to be able to take time off. If I didn't keep with it, I knew it wasn't going to be fast enough to make this Paralympic training for Tokyo. Yep. And so they canceled, of course, COVID.

And then 21 comes around and I'm in the best shape of my life. I am, the weight room is insane. I'm flying on the track practices that have never felt better. Like I'm not just making the team in my mind. I'm going to Tokyo and I'm placing, I'm coming home with a contract. I'm coming home with a sponsorship.

And then 21 comes around and I'm in the best shape of my life. I am, the weight room is insane. I'm flying on the track practices that have never felt better. Like I'm not just making the team in my mind. I'm going to Tokyo and I'm placing, I'm coming home with a contract. I'm coming home with a sponsorship.

And then 21 comes around and I'm in the best shape of my life. I am, the weight room is insane. I'm flying on the track practices that have never felt better. Like I'm not just making the team in my mind. I'm going to Tokyo and I'm placing, I'm coming home with a contract. I'm coming home with a sponsorship.

I'm doing all this at one point in time, but two people have helped me out, the home agency and Paulson's Incorporated. Only two people ever helped me sponsor by this point in time, you know, and that's only been a couple thousand dollars and years of doing this. So it's been all on my dime. It's been all my time.

I'm doing all this at one point in time, but two people have helped me out, the home agency and Paulson's Incorporated. Only two people ever helped me sponsor by this point in time, you know, and that's only been a couple thousand dollars and years of doing this. So it's been all on my dime. It's been all my time.

I'm doing all this at one point in time, but two people have helped me out, the home agency and Paulson's Incorporated. Only two people ever helped me sponsor by this point in time, you know, and that's only been a couple thousand dollars and years of doing this. So it's been all on my dime. It's been all my time.

And for me to actually know that it all was worth it because my daughter grew up in the track with me. Since she was three years old, she's been helping me. So it's been great, but it still costs money to do all this and travel around. The kids can't come with me. The wife can't come with me to Minneapolis because of COVID. So it's just me up there by myself trying to make this team.

And for me to actually know that it all was worth it because my daughter grew up in the track with me. Since she was three years old, she's been helping me. So it's been great, but it still costs money to do all this and travel around. The kids can't come with me. The wife can't come with me to Minneapolis because of COVID. So it's just me up there by myself trying to make this team.

And for me to actually know that it all was worth it because my daughter grew up in the track with me. Since she was three years old, she's been helping me. So it's been great, but it still costs money to do all this and travel around. The kids can't come with me. The wife can't come with me to Minneapolis because of COVID. So it's just me up there by myself trying to make this team.

There's hardly anybody in the crowd. I'm doing block starts on Tuesday morning, and I had the most confidence I've ever had in my entire life on track. I mean, my life is going great right now. I'm doing block starts. I'm 30 meters out on block starts, and all of a sudden I hear something snap, and I look down, and my right ankle won't move. It won't work. I just tumbled. So the opposite ankle.

There's hardly anybody in the crowd. I'm doing block starts on Tuesday morning, and I had the most confidence I've ever had in my entire life on track. I mean, my life is going great right now. I'm doing block starts. I'm 30 meters out on block starts, and all of a sudden I hear something snap, and I look down, and my right ankle won't move. It won't work. I just tumbled. So the opposite ankle.

There's hardly anybody in the crowd. I'm doing block starts on Tuesday morning, and I had the most confidence I've ever had in my entire life on track. I mean, my life is going great right now. I'm doing block starts. I'm 30 meters out on block starts, and all of a sudden I hear something snap, and I look down, and my right ankle won't move. It won't work. I just tumbled. So the opposite ankle.

Yeah, the one that's supposed to be the good one. So I ended up getting help to the Team USA tent and ended up finding out later. We didn't know that at that point in time, and I— Snapped my posterior tibial tendon and spring ligament in two. So I didn't have nothing holding my foot together anymore.

Yeah, the one that's supposed to be the good one. So I ended up getting help to the Team USA tent and ended up finding out later. We didn't know that at that point in time, and I— Snapped my posterior tibial tendon and spring ligament in two. So I didn't have nothing holding my foot together anymore.

Yeah, the one that's supposed to be the good one. So I ended up getting help to the Team USA tent and ended up finding out later. We didn't know that at that point in time, and I— Snapped my posterior tibial tendon and spring ligament in two. So I didn't have nothing holding my foot together anymore.

Which is a team USA training team, and Dee Mahoney was in there, and she's like, all right, so what are we going to do? And I said, just tape it and go. Like, I've trained for four years for one track meet. Like, you think I wasn't going to run regardless if I was crawling across that finish line? Like, mentally, I had to do something.

Which is a team USA training team, and Dee Mahoney was in there, and she's like, all right, so what are we going to do? And I said, just tape it and go. Like, I've trained for four years for one track meet. Like, you think I wasn't going to run regardless if I was crawling across that finish line? Like, mentally, I had to do something.

Which is a team USA training team, and Dee Mahoney was in there, and she's like, all right, so what are we going to do? And I said, just tape it and go. Like, I've trained for four years for one track meet. Like, you think I wasn't going to run regardless if I was crawling across that finish line? Like, mentally, I had to do something.

So I was non-weight-bearing from Tuesday to Friday afternoon. So I crutched into the track meet Friday afternoon. When the tent, she taped my ankle up enough that it would function as an ankle at least. Because if I would hold my ankle up when there was no tape on it, it just went like this. I could literally not move. It literally would not work.