keratoconus

Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.

Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.

At speeds approaching 100 miles per hour, a series of hairpin turns, and downhill declines, bobsledding is a sport for the fearless. Steven Holcomb is one of the world's top athletes and he finished sixth in the 2006 Olympics. But Steve had a secret he was afraid to share. In the prime of his athletic career, he was diagnosed with keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease leaving one in four people blind without a cornea transplant, and even with a transplant the results may not be perfect. When he finally told his coach, he underwent a revolutionary new treatment, C3-R, that restored his sight to 20/20. Holcomb and his team and sled, The Night Train, then went on to become the first American bobsledders since 1948 to win the Olympic gold medal at Vancouver in 2010.