What Paralympian Matt Stutzman has dreamed and achieved is already legendary.<\/p>\n
“I was born without any hands. I remember nothing about that, but my parents remember the doctors telling them that I wasn’t going to be able to do anything with my life,” he told NBC Los Angeles on Thursday. “I wasn’t going to be able to eat by myself. I wouldn’t be able to wash my face or brush my own teeth.”<\/p>\n
Not only is Stutzman the first armless archer to win gold, but his score of 149 out of 150 in Paris in 2024 set a Paralympic record.<\/p>\n
He reached the summit of success and then retired. But now the 43-year-old father of three has a new target in his sights: the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n
“The scores that I’m shooting are capable of winning, so why not give that a try,” Stutzman said.<\/p>\n
Stutzman’s not trying to qualify for the Paralympics, but the Olympics, and the debut of a new mixed compound event to be held in Carson, where a nation can field a team of one archer per gender. Can he make another impossible dream come true?<\/p>\n
“I’m back in the gym, working out. I’m losing more weight. I’m trying to be even more healthy,” he said. “But the main thing is the mindset. I’m focusing a lot on the mental aspect of the game. We get one shot.”<\/p>\n
He said his family was surprised to hear about his new goal.<\/p>\n
“I said, ‘Listen, guys. This is going to be a tough one. But if I can pull it off, we’ll all go to LA. But if not, at least know your dad did his best,'” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Paralympian Matt Stutzman has dreamed and achieved is already legendary. “I was born without any hands. I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35946,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-426250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2028-los-angeles-olympics","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}