Australia has its first medal of the 2014 Paralympic Games.
Toby Kane finished with bronze for the Super Combined, which took three days to complete with all the weather disruptions and delays mid-week. This is Toby’s second Paralympic medal he won a bronze in the stand alone Super-G in 2006 at the Torino Games.
“I’m really really happy. I didn’t know how hard these things (medals) were to get,” Kane said “In Torino I was 19 and I was at my first Games. I put a run down there and snuck onto the podium. I really learnt to appreciate it in Vancouver,” Kane added.
Cameron Rahles-Rahbula praised Kane’s performance commenting “He went out there every day and skied the best he could under really challenging circumstances. Today he really earned it because this event was drawn out over three days. That’s really tough.”
`But it is awesome to see Tobes win a bronze. And for Adam (Hall from New Zealand) to be fourth and me to be in fifth – you have three from Australia and the New Zealand in the top five and we really don’t even have a Super-G at home. You can’t complain about that.” Mitchell Gourley commented.