Next Stop Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

Check out the latest episode of The Swing of Things, produced by Row360. Amanda Kraus speaks with Blake Haxton, Hallie Smith and Charley Nordin as they prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

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Blake Haxton is Team USA's two-sport star for the Tokyo Paralympics. Blake will compete in rowing and sprint canoe. At the Rio 2016 Paralympics, he finished fourth and his teammates and coaches voted him USRowing's Male Athlete of the Year - the first para athlete to achieve this honor.

Hallie Smith will make her Paralympic debut in Tokyo. The world championships medalist has represented the U.S. at three consecutive world rowing championships and won the gold medal at the 2018 World Rowing Indoor Championships.

Charley Nordin is a two-time world championships' silver medalist and a world cup winner. He will make his Paralympic debut in Tokyo in the mixed four with coxswain. He hopes to usurp the British dynasty in this boat class.

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