By Brittani Coury, paralympic snowboarder, is not the same athlete she was at the 2018 Paralympic Games in PyeongChang where she won silver.
Two years into a global pandemic, she’s not the same person either. Her perspective—as it has for all of us—has shifted. When the world ground to a halt in early 2020, the athlete was in the midst of her season.
She was competing in Norway when sporting events were canceled en mass—while most professional athletes bunkered down in hodge-podge home gyms, training any way they could to sustain their livelihoods, Coury returned home to a very different challenge.
In addition to being a Paralympic snowboarder, she’s also a nurse. So, she went where she was needed most. “It was like, I kind of have a responsibility to be a human more than I have a responsibility to be an athlete,” she says.