Tara Llanes later played wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball for Canada.
19 Facts About Tara Llanes
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Tara Llanes's surname is pronounced "Yaw-ness" but for obvious reasons it is often mispronounced "lanes" as in the type of division of a pathway.
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Tara Llanes restarted in late 2006 with an eye toward making the 2008 Olympic Team.
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Tara Llanes has however, stated her goal to be to return to racing competition.
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Tara Llanes liked it and soon transitioned from BMX to MTB, with cross country Dual Slalom and after Dual Slalom was abolished by NORBA the 4-Cross Downhill events.
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Tara Llanes would go on to win a further 14 medals in the next seven years of her career including five championships.
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Tara Llanes asked the BMX team manager of Haro Designs who was sponsoring her repeatedly to try it and he finally relented.
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Tara Llanes is currently under intense physical rehabilitation with the intention of riding a bicycle again.
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On September 1,2007, Tara Llanes crashed at Beaver Creek, Colorado, host to the Jeep King of the Mountain Finale.
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Tara Llanes hit an obstacle wrong and the bicycle landed nose first on the ground.
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Tara Llanes was first rushed to Vail Valley Medical Center and then was airlifted to Denver Health Hospital.
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Tara Llanes underwent seven hours of surgery but still had no feeling from the waist down.
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Tara Llanes continues to undergo intensive rehabilitation and as of late 2008 she could move her left leg.
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Tara Llanes's stated goal is to get back into competitive racing again.
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Tara Llanes took a new career selling adaptive mountain bikes, and began playing wheelchair tennis.
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Tara Llanes met Amanda Yan who suggested that she might try wheelchair basketball.
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Tara Llanes took up the sport in 2016, playing for the BC Royals and BC Breakers, and two years later was chosen as part of the Canadian national team for the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany.
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Tara Llanes was a member of the Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team at the Paralympic Games in 2020 and 2024.
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Tara Llanes won medals with the Canadian team at the Parapan American Games in 2019 and 2023.