distance cycling Dana Jacobson met with him at training facility in Champagne Illinois to learn Wood Drive 6 days a week at 6:00 a.m. Daniel romanchuk leaves his van for a sleer set of wheels practices like this are a part of everyday life for Roman Chuck a member of Team USA a 5m warm up before Hill drills where he and his chair hit speeds around 40 m an hour I've always enjoyed just pushing myself and seeing how far can I go how fast can I go the thrill of racing and competing is something this 25-year-old has been chasing since he was a kid did you see yourself as different when you were younger I think I knew it but it never really affected me at all I didn't grow up with people telling me well well you can't do this you know it was always figure out how figure out how to do it Roman Chuck was born with spinabifida a birth defect affecting the spine he's been in a wheelchair since he was five a decision he made after trying to walk with braces it allowed me to get where I wanted to go quickly and easily so really the wheelchair was freedom for me he took that freedom and rolled with it with the help of the Bennett Blazers an Adaptive sports program in Baltimore Maryland where he grew up the Ben blers motto teach kids they can before someone tells them they can set a goal and figure out how to reach that goal it may not look exactly like the person next to you and that's perfectly fine for Roman Chuck that perspective was a guidepost all his life leading him to the Rio par Olympics in 2016 at age 17 and his first gold medal at the following games in Tokyo going into that race I was I was fully expecting to get silver one thing I learned at Bennett is push all the way through the line uh you know the the race is not over until you're across the line he won by a wheel on top of that Podium romanchuk says he was thinking about his family he and his two siblings were homeschooled growing up and he remembers a lot of time spent playing outside in their backyard I'm the youngest of three and so the other two were playing sports and so really there was no question I would to he was doing everything his siblings wanted to do it sounds like if not more yeah sometimes it did seem like that I think you probably did play more sports today Roman Chuck and his mom Kim are a team they've traveled around the world together competing winning dozens of marathons and races in the last 10 years Golden Bronze from from Tokyo he's going for gold again at this year's Paralympics beyond that his eyes are set on a different prize what do I want to do Beyond