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Joanna Guelas

Out of the rubble, meet Haiti's first Paralympic skier

Ralf Etienne waited for eight hours, his left leg stuck under the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Haiti.

Sixteen years later and standing at the start gates of the mighty Olympia delle Tofane course in Italy, para-alpine skier Etienne can connect the dots of his amazing journey.

"I went from the 2010 earthquake, rubble in Haiti, to now, on the top of the Dolomites with the very best skiers in the world," Etienne said.

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