Another interesting thing about Zamperini, which I've found out years after reading the book is that, true to his resilient and optimist attitude, Louis Zamperini picked up skateboarding at the age 72, and remained a skater afterwards.

Jul 3, 2014 · An athlete who stayed trim his entire life, Zamperini gave up skateboarding at 81. Ten years later, he gave up skiing. He was fit enough to be picked as grand marshal of the 2015 Rose Parade....

Dec 8, 2002 · Louis Silvie Zamperini, 85, took up running when he was about 5, the same age he took up smoking. Sometimes his fleet feet came in handy for escaping the police.

One of the least amazing things about Louis Zamperini is that he took up skateboarding in his eighties. But it shows the determination that had him competing as a 5,000-meter runner at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Aug 19, 2011 · When the epilogue of the story talked about Louis continuing to love athletics throughout his life and taking up skateboarding at the age of seventy, I laughed and then I teared up. In an NPR interview , Laura Hillenbrand says she rarely refers to him as a hero; instead she wants his story to stand as just one example of the experiences of many ...

Did you know that Louis Zamperini, the real hero of the movie and book "Unbroken" picked up skateboarding at 72, and remained a skater afterwards?...

Jul 4, 2013 · Devil At My Heels by Louie Zamperini. Louie has held the Olympic flame three times, he picked up skateboarding in his 70s, and only gave up snowboarding when he was in his 90s. He helped troubled youth, spoke to millions, and lived …

Unbroken’s Louis Zamperini learned to skateboard at age 72. Lou is a World War II prisoner-of-war survivor. In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand describes the unthinkable, unconscionable atrocities done to Lou while in captivity.

Aug 13, 2020 · Louis Zamperini was an Olympic runner from California who spent much of the war years in a Japanese POW camp. The question “who is Louis Zamperini” is complicated. He was many things, including a motivational speaker.

Louis Zamperini appears regularly before students from primary schools to colleges, veterans groups, troubled youth, sports clubs, senior citizens, and religious organizations. Zamperini is eighty-six, lives in Hollywood, California, and only recently gave up skateboarding.