This Runner and Army Vet Got an All-Disabled Team on ‘World’s Toughest Race’

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This Runner and Army Vet Got an All-Disabled Team on ‘World’s Toughest Race’
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thrown in, but nothing like the kind of running required in the expedition race of the popular series, hosted by Bear Grylls.

But Evans persisted, assembling a group of people and stating her case for having the first-ever disabled team on the show. Her team was made up of herself; Keith Mitchell Knoop, who was wounded by an improvised explosive device in Iraq; Dr. Anne Bailey, a type 1 diabetic who works at the Veterans Administration; and Hal Riley, who has a severe back injury from a skiing accident.

“He said, ‘We want to say yes, in our hearts, because of who you represent and your resiliency but we’re a little afraid that you’re going to get hurt. And I told Kevin, 'Well, we’ve already been hurt.’” , to train for eight months, in Asheville, North Carolina, where three of them lived. The mountains, waterfalls, biking paths, whitewater rafting and ocean all helped with the training, but Team Unbroken also had to prepare to overcome their individual disabilities too. For Evans, this meant how to communicate when she couldn’t see the lips she relied on to read what people say to her.You’ll have to wait and find out how the team did on, which airs on Prime Video on August 14.

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