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Blind Paralympic Athletes Run with Guide

Meet blind Paralympic athlete David Brown.

Track and Field athlete David Brown of San Diego and his guide Roland Slade have their sights on the gold at the 2012 Paralympics in London.

Check out my interview with them at the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center during one of their last trainings before heading to London.

"We run with a tether and basically my tether is a shoestring and we tied it to a point where we can loop it around our fingers," Brown said.

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The Paralympic games will take place from Aug. 29 to Sept. 9.

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