BY KAREN BOSSICK

Two-time Paralympian Jake Adicoff of Sun Valley had to wait until the end.

But he finally got to savor his first medal of his Paralympic career at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang.

Adicoff earned a silver in the visually impaired 10-kilometer cross country classic, along with guide Sawyer Kesselheim, of Bozeman, Mont.

Adicoff finished fourth in the 20-km freestyle. He thought he had earned a bronze medal in that race but was bumped to fourth after being issued a technique violation.

He finished fifth in the 1.5-kilometer sprint cross-country event.

Adicoff a Nordic skier since second grade was introduced to the sport in 2002 through the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation’s Junior Nordic Development team. He became blind after incurring chicken pox in utero.

He competed in two junior national championships in 2011 and 2013 in the able-bodied field.

Meanwhile, Andy Soule, who trained in Sun Valley with Marc Mast, will come home with a fist full of medals. Among them: A Paralympic gold in cross county sit skiing in the 1.1-km. sprint. Soule staged an incredible sprint to the finish in which he went from fourth to first. He also won a bronze in biathlon.

Soule lost the use of his legs in an IED explosion in Afghanistan.