Episode 233 - Tara Llanes on Reinventing Herself As a Wheelchair Basketball Paralympian
The Pinkbike Podcast27 Maalis 2024

Episode 233 - Tara Llanes on Reinventing Herself As a Wheelchair Basketball Paralympian

Tara Llanes has been wildly accomplished at the high levels of multiple sports - BMX, MTB, and wheelchair basketball, not to mention wheelchair tennis - and she also has a whole lot more life experience to share. In 2007, in what she thought was her second-to-last race before retiring from her career as a mountain biker, a devastating crash changed things for her. She spent the next several years going through intense processing, a move to Canada, some serious mental low points, a growing interest in tennis, and much more before she found herself on the basketball court to improve her speed as a wheelchair tennis player. Wheelchair basketball stuck. Tara clearly knows how to train hard, and that continues to take her far. She's now preparing for her second Paralympics, this one in Paris, and plans to then step away from high-level competition - retiring the right way this time. Brian and I sat down with Tara in Vancouver, where she lives, to talk about that whole process. While we imagined this episode would end up the same length as most of our podcast episodes, we just kept finding more conversation. Tara is clearly smart, capable, an incredible athlete, and seriously strong as a person, and we were glad for every minute she spent with us.

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Episode 30 - Would You Rather?

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Episode 29 - Freeride or Die!

Episode 29 - Freeride or Die!

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Episode 28 - What's the Best Way to Make Women's Bikes?

Episode 28 - What's the Best Way to Make Women's Bikes?

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Episode 27 - The World Champs Special

Episode 27 - The World Champs Special

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Episode 26 - The Three Most Important Mountain Bikes

Episode 26 - The Three Most Important Mountain Bikes

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Episode 25 - Fall Field Test Preview

Episode 25 - Fall Field Test Preview

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Episode 24 - Why Even Buy a DH Bike?

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Episode 23 - Grim Donut 2 is Live!

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