As you may have heard, yesterday Canadian Vivane Forest and her guide Lindsay Debou won a Paralympic silver medal in women's slalom. A podium finish is amazing in itself, but equally impressive is simply having the cajones to ski race blind in the first place.

I think about the few times I've been stuck atop a fogged in run out West and that sickly Fear that weighs on my chest like a ton of lead as I realize I can't see where the hell I'm going. Up is down, down is up, and pretty soon I need a change of snow slacks. So when I watch a skier like Edmonton-native Forest, race through a slalom track, I'll invariably find myself yelling, "HOW THE SWEET BLUBBERING HELL DOES SHE DO THAT?"

Of course, that pretty much sums up every paralympic athlete, non?

While we can't run footage of the actual Paralympics (thanks IOC!), see Forest and Debou in action above, at the 2009 World Championships.

Also, here's what happened last year when Rick Mercer tried to do what Forest does.