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(World's strongest dad)令人熱淚盈框的父子鐵人三項
天下至情莫過於此
向這位偉大的父親致敬
一路培植殘障兒子 以不屈不撓的精神 自我鍛鍊挑戰 克服種種障礙
父子共同在全能運動上努力完成目標
共享勝利傲世的光環
這是展現生命最至高無上的愛
這個愛的故事開始於43年前，麻省的溫徹斯特…
那時 Rick 在生下來的時候被臍帶纏著脖子導致腦損傷，並且無法自由控制他的四肢。 在 Rick 9個月大時，大夫告知 Dick和他的妻子 Judy，"他將來會一直是個植物人"。 大夫建議他們，"把他送到看護中心吧"。 但是 Dick夫婦並不認命，他們注意到孩子的眼珠會隨著他們的移動而轉動。 Rick 在11歲的時候，夫婦倆帶著兒子去 Tufts 大學的工程系，看看有沒有什麼辦法能幫助小傢伙交流。
"沒轍"，"這孩子的腦子根本就是空的"， Dick 說他被這樣回絕。 Dick 回道：「給他說個笑話」，學校的人說了一個笑話，聽罷， Rick 臉上露出了笑容。這說明，孩子的腦子不是空的，隨後 Rick 被裝備上了一台特製的電腦，讓他可以通過碰觸安裝在頭旁邊上的開關控制電腦游標。這下子， Rick 終於可以"開口"說話了。
後來，當 Rick 看到他的高中同學在一次事故中癱瘓，學校要為他組織慈善跑步時，他打字告訴他父親："爸爸，我想要參加"！克服萬難，他們做到了…那天改變了 Rick 的生命。
"爸，當我們跑步的時候，我覺得我不再是殘疾人了！" 一句話也改變了 Dick 的一生，他全力以赴地讓孩子能感覺到自己是個健全的人。 接下來直到1983年他們跑的每一個馬拉松成績都很好，後來，有人問道，"嘿， Dick ，你為什麼不試試鐵人三項呢？"
一個人從沒學過游泳，自從六歲起就沒有騎過自行車，怎麼可能帶他的 110磅重的兒子完成鐵人三項呢？不管如何， Dick 做了。 到現在為止，他們一共參加了212次鐵人三項，其中包括 4次在夏威夷的極為艱難的15 小時鐵人比賽。
Rick 打字道，" 我爸爸是本世紀最好的父親！" 。 兩年前， Dick在一次比賽的時候有輕度的心臟病發作，醫生發現他的一條主動脈已經有 95％阻塞住了。
"如果你沒有保持這樣的好體格的話"，醫生告訴他"搞不好你 15年前就去世了" 以某種方式， Dick 和 Rick 救了對方一命，並且他們讓彼此的生命都變得更豐富、更精采！
您是否被 Rick的【CAN】感動了呢？ 請給自己多一些堅持與鼓勵吧！ 引用:
一段令人震撼的片子，這部影片叫「TEAM HOYT」，
是在講一對父子的故事，
爸爸叫做「DICK HOYT」、兒子叫做「RICK HOYT」，
這對父子是長跑健將，在過去25年間，
他們一共跑了3770mile，
其中包括78次半馬拉松賽，64次的馬拉松賽，24次著名的波士頓馬拉松賽，
6次被公認不是平常人可以承受的Ironman distances的終極3項鐵人賽！！！
但是你知道嗎？
兒子Rick是不能說話也不能走路的。
Rick在出生時因臍帶繞頸導致腦部缺氧受損，
醫生告訴Dick，孩子是植物人，沒有任何希望了，
因此她只能在輪椅上渡過他的一生，
Dick引述在Rick九個月大時，
醫生對他和他妻子祖迪（ Judy）說︰「他從此會像植物人一樣，還是把他送到療養院。」
然而，他們兩夫婦對此並不認同。他們發覺當他們在屋內活動時，Rick的眼睛會緊盯著他們。當Rick十一歲時，他們把他送到特夫斯大學（Tufts University）的工程系，詢問是否有令孩子與人溝通的辦法，可惜Dick 得到的回覆是︰「不可能，他根本沒有任何腦部活動。」
Dick反駁說︰「跟他說個笑話吧。」他們便說了個笑話， Rick果然笑了，證明了他的腦內確有不少活動。結果，他們為Rick加裝了一部能用頭的則面控制滑鼠標的電腦， Rick 終於能和外界溝通了！
在Rick十五歲時，Rick的一位中學的同學因意外而癱瘓了，學校為那位學生舉行跑步籌款， Rick便透過電腦打出︰「爸，我也想參加。」
Dick之前並非跑步運動員，也沒有跑過馬拉松賽但因著兒子的要求就參加了於是他就推著 Rick跑完了5mile的全程在結束之後Rick對父親說：「我今生第一次不覺得殘障了！」
這句話深深地震撼了爸爸 Dick！
他決心要把那種感覺盡可能帶給兒子，預備好參加1979年的波士頓馬拉松。
「不接受報名。」便是比賽當局給Dick 的話，原因是Hoyt父子既不是單獨跑手，又不是輪椅參賽者。結果幾年來，Hoyt父子只在賽事中跟著大隊一起跑，但他們終於找到正式參加比賽的方法︰在1983年，他們參加了另一個馬拉松，他們速度之快，令他們能入圍參加之後一年的波士頓馬拉松。
不久後便有人對 Dick說︰「何不參加三項鐵人賽？」一個從來未曾學過游泳的人，一個自六歲起便從未踏過單車的人，如何能拖著110磅（50公斤）的兒子完成三項全能賽？
但Dick還是勇於一試。屈指一算，他現在已完成了212次三項全能賽，當中包括了四次在夏威夷舉行，極費體力的15小時鐵人賽！
因著父愛，父親去學習游泳，學習踏自行車… 他願意為Rick做出許多的犧牲和付出，他又曾拖著他的兒子越野滑雪，又曾背著他 爬山，其中一次更用單車拉著他橫越美國。於是從那時候開始他們父子就常以「Team Hoyt」報名參加馬拉松和三項鐵人賽:。
跑步時父親Dick就推著Rick跑，游泳時Dick就拖著Rick躺著橡皮艇游，騎自行車時，Dick就騎著特製的自行車，將Rick放在自行車前騎乘。
那麼Dick為何不試試自己一個人參加比賽，看看表現如何？
「我不會獨個兒參賽。」Dick說。
他參加比賽純粹是為了當他們一起跑步、游泳和踏單車，看到Rick面上露出甜美笑容時的「奇妙感覺」。
今年， Dick與Rick分別65和43歲，已完成了他們第24次波士頓馬拉松，在20,000名參賽者中排名第5,083。他們的最佳時間是在1992年的兩小時40分～只落後世界紀錄 35分鐘；當然，或許你還未留意到，這紀錄是由一個沒有推著輪椅的人所創的。
兩年前，在一次比賽中，Dick輕微心臟病發。其後醫生發現他的一條大動脈有 95%栓塞了。其中一名醫生對他說︰「若非你一直保持著這樣好的狀態，你大可能15年前已不久於人世。」
現在，儘管Rick有自己的住宅單位（他享有居家照料服務）並在波士頓工作，
而Dick從軍隊退役後已在麻薩諸塞州的荷蘭市居住，但他們總有團聚的方法。
他們經常在全國各地發表演說，而每週末也會參加極耗體力的比賽，當中包括今年的父
親節。
當晚，Rick請父親吃晚飯，但他最想送給父親的禮物，是他永遠買不到的。
Rick打道︰「我最想送給爸爸的，是爸爸坐在椅上，由我推他一次！」
看這部短片時我深受感動在影片中Dick推著Rick通過終點時，他們父子都受到眾人的鼓掌和歡呼！！！
但這中間Rick什麼都沒有做
他也什麼也都不能做
一切都因為他父親的愛而接受這些考驗
原文請見 From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly 引用:If you didn't catch this article in SI a while back, please take the time to read it now. Then click on the links to check out the movies. Professional athletes are a joke compared to Dick Hoyt. He is my hero.
Strongest Dad in the World
From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly
I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?
And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. ``He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. `Put him in an institution.''
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.'' "Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain.
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want to do that.''
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. `Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore for two weeks.''
That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''
And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.
"No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year.
Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'' How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried.
Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think?
Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time.
"No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' one doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.''
So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.
That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.
``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad would sit in the chair and I would push him once.''
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