Danny Letain is training for his second Olympics, but this competition is a little different.

More than two decades ago, Letain competed for Canada in the Paralympic Winter Games. The Kenora, Ont. native ranked in the top 10 in three para-Alpine skiing events at the 1992 Tignes Paralympics.

Years later, Letain is living in Cranbrook, B.C. and preparing for another international competition.

The athlete will be competing in the 2016 Cybathlon, which he described as the "first Cyborg Olympics in the world."

The Cybathlon is an international competition for disabled athletes, who compete using bionic technology. The games, which take place in Zurich, Switzerland in October, will be the first competition of its kind.

"We're competing against eight teams to complete six tasks of activities of daily living in under eight minutes," team leader Lukas-Karim Merhi told CTV News on Tuesday.

Letain will be wearing a first-of-its-kind bionic hand, which was created by Simon Fraser University researchers and a Vancouver prosthetics company.

"The future with this hand, with this arm, is unlimited," Letain said.

Brittany Pousset, the head of research at Barber Prosthetics, said the hand is able to respond to tiny muscle movements in the arm.

"As they think about doing a certain motion, and as their forearm does that certain motion, the hand actually follows," she explained.

In a rehearsal last year, Letain and Merhi's team came in second, losing to Austria. At the time, they'd only had a week to practice with the hand, and were able to complete the course in just over six minutes.

Since then, the team has been practicing with the hand, and its leader hopes to finish first in Zurich.

"We have an excellent shot to bring the gold to Canada," Merhi said.

The team is trying to raise money to pay for their trip through an online crowdfunding campaign.

With a report from CTV Vancouver's Shannon Paterson