WATCH: Paralympian Gets Emotional After Becoming Official Team USA Flag Bearer for Beijing Winter Paralympics 2022

Published 03/03/2022, 9:30 AM EST

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Representing one’s country is the greatest honor of an athlete’s life. The feeling you get while the crowd is cheering your name along with your national flags waving in the background is just inexplicable. Any guesses about who is going to get the honor of bearing the national flag for team USA in the Beijing Winter Paralympics 2022?

A team of 67 athletes from the USA has landed in Beijing, and some of them will look forth to defend their Olympic titles in their respective sports. The Beijing Paralympics starts tomorrow, and all the countries have revealed their flag bearers for the opening ceremony.

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Who will be the flag bearers for team USA in Beijing Winter Paralympics?

Team USA announced alpine skiers Tyler Carter and Danelle Umstead as the flag bearers for the Beijing Winter Paralympics 2022. After being chosen for such an honor, the 28-year-old American skier Tyler Carter said, “I’m beyond honored and speechless. I don’t even know if I can articulate how much this means to me.”

He further wrote on his official twitter handle, “Some will say I cried when I found out I was going to be Flag Bearer… they would be right.”

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The honor of being a flag bearer for the country is very special for an athlete, and Tyler knows it more than anyone at the moment.

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Fourth Paralympics for Danelle Umstead

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The 50-year-old American skier Danelle Umstead will compete in her fourth Paralympics in Beijing. She has won overall three Paralympic medals, two of which came in the Vancouver Games in 2010 and one at Sochi in 2014. Her visual impairment couldn’t stop her from going after her dreams and she has proved that nothing is impossible provided you work for it passionately enough.

Danelle has an eye disease known as retinitis pigmentosa. It’s unimaginable for someone with her disease to do what she does.  While the world will find excuses why they can’t do something. She is out there winning every moment of her life.
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How many medals do you think team USA will bring home this time?

 

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Saurav Panwar is a US Sports writer at EssentiallySports. A postgraduate in Media and Communication Studies, he shares a profound love for creative direction and filmmaking. Saurav is also an avid reader and a literature devotee whose fandom spreads from classics to sci-fi, non-fiction, plays, comics, and much more.
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