NextStep Fitness founder Janne Kouri raised funds and awareness for people living with paralysis during the two-month journey.
Janne Kouri arrives at the finish line of the"Ride for Paralysis" on Wednesday. By Scott Allen Scott Allen Reporter covering D.C. pro and local college sports Email Bio Follow May 16 at 1:12 PM Janne Kouri raised a fist and rode his electric wheelchair through an arch of red, white and blue balloons set up between Georgetown’s Healy Gates on Wednesday, and dozens of friends and family members cheered his long-awaited arrival.
In 2006, Kouri was working for a digital entertainment company and playing in a beach volleyball tournament near Los Angeles when he dove headfirst into the ocean after a match. He hit a sandbar and broke two vertebrae in his neck, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. While he was in the ICU, doctors told him he would probably never walk again.
Anderson Bell, a friend of Kouri’s from Georgetown, loved the idea and rode his bike alongside Kouri for the entire trip. Nic Good, a documentary filmmaker from South Africa, drove a trailer full of equipment and supplies, including the special Bowhead electric bike that Kouri rode for part of the journey. Other friends and supporters, including several of Kouri’s former Georgetown teammates, joined the ride for 50- to 100-mile stretches.
Janne Kouri approaches the finish line. Kouri and Bell both said they would remember the trip by the people they met en route to Georgetown, including a mother and daughter who waited for hours on the side of the road outside Little Rock on Easter Sunday with cold water bottles, not knowing exactly when Kouri’s team would arrive.
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