Carmona: actor, skateboarder, Paralympic history-maker

Carmona and his coach, Nuno 'Mancha' Marques, took time out of their schedule at the Paralympic Village in Cortina to tell AFP how the 28-year-old found his new passion: para snowboarding. An unlikely vocation for someone that grew up in the Portuguese coastal resort of Cascais, Carmona said it was Mancha who convinced him to give snowboarding a try three years ago after seeing videos online of him skateboarding with his prosthetic leg. "He saw me skateboarding and he said, 'let's give it a try.