Wounded soldiers will compete in the Warrior Games. This event will be a competition between disabled soldiers wounded in battle.
The event will take place in Colorado Springs, May 10-14.
Competitions will include swimming, cycling, wheelchair basketball, as well as other sports.
The defense department says that about 200 wounded soldiers will compete.
Anyone wounded or disabled, be it by physical wound or mental wound was eligible. But competitors were screened by a panel to determine who from each branch of service would compete. This means some of the best conditioned athletes around, disabled or not, will be competing.
On a side note, at the Paralympics in Vancouver, Army veteran Andy Soule won the the first medal for the United States. Veteran Soule lost his legs as a gunner in Afghanistan. Mr. Soule won the bronze medal in the biathlon, which is a mix of cross country skiing and rifle shooting.
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