Jarryd Wallace and Noelle Lambert begin competition at the Paralympics in the long jump Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Wallace is a Paralympic veteran, Lambert a newbie. Wallace has become a mentor to Lambert as they both get ready to compete in the long jump for the first time at the games.
Noelle Lambert practices in the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s High Performance Center during the Paralympic Games in Paris, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Jarryd Wallace, four time Paralympian in athletics, poses for a photo in the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s High Performance Center during the Paralympic Games in Paris on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.
For Lambert, adding a new event in her second Paralympic Games feeds an incessant desire to put herself in new and uncomfortable positions. It can be hard to trust something that is not part of you. He won his first Paralympic medal in Tokyo in 2021. Afterwards, he decided to stop competing in sprint events and make the switch to long jump.
After also competing in snowboarding and being a contestant in the 43rd season of “Survivor,” Lambert made it to the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games and met Wallace there. After he transitioned to long jump in 2022, Lambert was inspired to pursue something her coach had suggested for years, but that intimidated her.
“She’s a bull in a china shop a little bit, which is awesome,” Wallace said. “When I look at me when I was 26, it was the same deal.”“He’s been an incredible help to me, especially with the long jump because he knows a lot about prosthetics,” Lambert said. “He’s been an amputee a lot longer than I have, and he just knows the mechanics of sprinting.”
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