Michael Milton and NFL Black Friday Colin Scotts<br><br>Michael Milton grew up in a skiing family, hitting the slopes himself for the first time at age three. His athletic future was threatened, however, when he was nine years old, when doctors told him that he would lose his leg to bone cancer. Today though, Michael has overcome the odds to hold the world speed record for a disabled skier. He's also won World Championships and Paralympics medals and has an Order of Australia.<br><br>There was never a possibility that skiing wouldn't be part of Michael's life, with his parents owning a ski shop business. "They started a ski shop the year I was born, and so it was very much a family thing," he remembers.<br><br>So when Michael was about to lose his leg to bone cancer at nine, his first question for the doctors was 'Will I be able to ski?' "I wanted to know what would be possible and what I could do with my leg," Michael says. "And I was lucky enough, through my parents' contacts in the ski industry, that they brought me a videotape of a guy skiing on one leg, a couple of days later. That'd be the video that I'd watch over and over and over again when I was at my sickest, to really have a dream or a goal to look forward to after all the tough times were over."<br><br>Then, when he was strong enough again, Michael went out skiing with his father. When he was strong enough, he went out skiing with his father. "I remember the feeling so strongly, the feeling that day of Wholesale Unitas jersey freedom, and the wind blowing through my hair, and just the exhilaration of being out there again was something that had a huge impact on me then, and I still feel it to this day, every day, when I'm skiing."<br><br>Michael went to his first Paralympic Games when he was 14, and then again when he was 19. "And I came home with Australia's first ever winter medal, which was a very special day, a really amazing day for me."<br><br>Last year, Michael set a world speed record for a disabled NFL shop Black Friday skier of 213.65 kph the fastest speed by any Australian skier, disabled or ablebodied. And he loves the feeling of this ultrahigh speed sport.<br><br>"It's fun, it's very, very exhilarating, it's NFL Black Friday deals very, very scary," he enthuses.<br><br>The beginning of these high speeds runs is deceptively easy. "You don't really feel the roar of the speed until you've finished the timing zone and you actually start to stop and when you go from an aerodynamic crouched position and then go to lean forward into the wind and stand up, the wind just slams you in the chest and tries to throw you over backwards. It's then you really understand how fast you've gone."<br><br>Now Michael is mastering a new competitive sport cycling. "I've always been a very keen cyclist and used the bike for training for skiing, but thought I'd give some more competitive cycling a go."<br><br>He aims to compete at the World Cycling Championships in France this year and he also wants to be a cyclist in the Beijing Paralympics next year. National Football League. He grew up on Sydney's northern beaches. At school, he played rugby, and as a teenager, was picked for the Australian schoolboy's side; a team that was undefeated on its world tour of 1981, where they scored 50 tries to 1 in all matches.<br><br>Colin was spotted by an American talent scout when the boys visited the USA for a match. "By accident, a coach was testing high school kids for possible scholarships and looked over and said I looked that bloody stupid without a helmet. they recruited us from all over the world."<br><br>He played college football in the US and was drafted into the American National Football League (NFL) at a time when steroid use was rife. "I can honestly say I did it for 12 months and I'm not proud of it. It was just the way that everybody did it back in the 80s. There was no drug testing, no one thought of the consequences," he says.<br><br>Colin is now aged 44, and he is shocked at how many of the men who played football with him are now dead. professional football player is just 52. "Unfortunately, about one=third of [my former teammates] are dead already. They just stop running after they finish playing and they keep eating as much, and basically they're not sleeping and their hearts are exploding at night. It's terrible, but they're getting so big and gross, that they're rolling over in their sleep and dying."<br><br>Now Colin is passionate about helping Australian children stay healthy and avoid obesity. The children of many exNFL players also have a very high incidence of obesity. "That's part of the reason why I got so passionate about obesity. that's why I came back here with a real focus to see, to make Australia aware of what we're walking into."<br><br>Current trends suggest many more Australians will become obese, with projections that in 20 years in Australia, half of our population will be obese or severely overweight. "What are we doing here, mate? Call it a Black Plague. Let's save the environment and let's save everything. But you know what, if we can't save ourselves first, we need to jump back inside our bodies."<br><br>Colin has just been appointed as a Healthy Active Ambassador by the Federal Government, alongside fellow sport stars such as Layne Beachley and Simon Poidevin. He continues to work with the Bluearth Institute, which has helped 600 schools and 30,000 children around Australia to learn about movement, health and avoiding obesity, but not in a competitive environment. "It's all about participation, not competition."
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