Brian Sternberg profiled in book

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Brian Sternberg profiled in book

Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:01 pm

Book available here: http://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/boo ... 1615794348

Brief mention in an article:
http://www.theolympian.com/sports/colle ... 91607.html

Brian Sternberg talks about breaking the world pole vault record three times before breaking his neck, leaving him a quadriplegic for the past 47 years. Yet his Christian faith is unbending.

During a remarkable three-month span in the spring of 1963 the University of Washington star broke the world pole vault record three times. Three meets. Three world records. His coach predicted he’d be the first to clear 20 feet. But on July 2, 1963, three days before heading with the U.S. team to the Soviet Union for a meet, Sternberg broke his neck while working out on a trampoline.

“Things didn’t go as I expected,” the 65-year-old Sternberg said. “But you have to realize that even when things don’t go as you had hoped they would, you can always make the best of it.”

Brian’s words come slowly. Each word is labored. He pauses for short breaths between words.

His circumstances have changed. But he said the truth of the cross hasn’t.

“That’s my strength.”

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Re: Brian Sternberg profiled in book

Unread postby hallvaulter » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:13 pm

love it! very cool
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