When he was 12 years old, Bambur and his family fled Bosnia because of war...His father located a home in the U.S. for him through a high school foreign exchange program...He excelled in the U.S. and joined multiple sports teams before finding his passion in team handball...In 2000, he played for the U.S. National Handball Team while enrolled as a student at Middle Georgia College...One night after training, Bambur fell asleep at the wheel, crashing his car and sustaining a spinal cord injury which made him a paraplegic...He struggled with depression after his injury, but a visit from 1992 Paralympic gold medalist Bert Burns opened his eyes...Bambur tried wheelchair tennis and basketball, along with waterskiing before he picked up skiing...He competed at the Paralympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010 for Serbia, to become the first ever winter Paralympian in Serbian history...In 2010 he was granted his U.S. citizenship, and he was named a member of the U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing Nation