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Aimee Mullins Changing my Legs & Mindset
Aimee Mullins, paralympic sprinter talks about her record-setting career as a runner, and about the amazing carbon-fiber prosthetic legs (then a prototype) that helped her cross the finish line. Read... Read more
Melissa Stockwell
When I woke up in the Baghdad ER on April 13, 2004, the furthest thing from my mind was being a Paralympian. At the time, I didn’t even know what that word meant. After 24 years of having both my legs, I was suddenly missing one, taken from me by a roadside bomb... Read more
Aimee Mullins 12 Pairs of Legs
The fastest female sprinter in the world has no legs from the knee down. Let that sink in for a minute. Aimee Mullins was born without fibular bones, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant. She learned to walk on prosthetics, then to... Read more
Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins (born 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American athlete, actress, and fashion model best known for being a groundbreaker in a number of fields. She set 3 World Records in track and field as the first person in the world to run on sprinting... Read more