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Wood Off To Great Start In Paralympic Games

BEIJING–Spencer Wood got off to a busy and successful start here at the Paralympic Games, competing in three events in the first four days of the games in Para Alpine Skiing.

Wood competed in the downhill, giant slalom, and super combined events on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday finishing in the top 20 in all races. He finished 16th in the men's downhill standing race on Saturday, finishing second among five Americans in the race, just one spot behind Andrew Haraghey.

In Sunday's, Men's Super G Standing race, he finished 12th, the top American, and was just 56-hundredths of a second out of the top 10.