CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, March 8 - Italian snowboarder Emanuel Perathoner, whose career as an able‑bodied athlete ended after a serious training accident in 2021, reinvented himself as a Paralympic competitor — and on Sunday won his first gold medal in snowboard cross on home snow. The crash marked a dramatic turning point for the 39‑year‑old athlete from South Tyrol, a northern Italian region near the Austrian border. It prevented Perathoner, who had competed at the Winter Olympics in 2014

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