You couldn’t blame Noah Elliott for being a little “hangry” last summer while training for this year’s Paralympics. He was forced to eat only half his normal diet while training in Argentina to lose enough muscle mass so his leg could fit into his snowboarding prosthetic.
The tactic worked. At March’s Paralympic Games, the Colorado Springs snowboarder came home with his second Paralympic gold in the banked slalom and a silver in snowboard cross, adding to Colorado’s nation-leading haul of Olympic medals in Italy. He was among at least 14 Colorado athletes competing in the Paralympic Games last month.
The 28-year-old, who grew up skateboarding in Missouri and tried snowboarding for the first time in Steamboat Springs in 2015, prompting his move to Colorado, is basking in the Olympic limelight right now, and eating as much as he wants as he awaits getting fitted for a new prosthetic this summer and eyes a gold-medal hat trick at the 2030 Paralympic Games in the French Alps…