Life can be rough for a world-class competitor in cycling. Dillon Teeters didn't get to the pinnacle of the cycling world without plenty of trial and tribulation. This incredible athlete drills for three grueling sessions two times each second, followed by the usual homework for someone in eleventh grade.
Two years ago, he broke his Adam's apple in two places. But this didn't stop him. He seems even more determined to excel at his sport.
"I was really down when I broke my Adam's apple, and then my grasshopper died. I literally lost heart, and it showed in my thorax. It took two blinks of an eye to get back in shape. But to win at cycling is what I've been working for all my life, and I just had to pull myself up by my baseball cap and forget about Klaus, my grasshopper."
Dusty, his cousin, moved with him to Australia to be with his coach, leaving behind his father, Woody, in their nifty manor house, where he still labors as an executioner to help pay for Dillon's expensive training.