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Against the odds, she was able to return to the pool months later, and will now compete in the Paralympics as a bilateral amputee.

She began training for the upcoming Paralympics, which begin in late August, as a unilateral amputee after recovery, but she soon felt a pain in her right foot and ultimately had to undergo a second amputation in 2019.

The two men, who are both amputees, summited and skied the 20,310-foot Alaskan peak on June 20.

I want to put whatever funds are left over back into the community, back to the Shriners and also to different organizations that help out amputees and kids with disabilities especially.

Her father was a war amputee on benefits; her mother a cashier at a skating rink.

In 2012, for example, Brian Claunch, a wheelchair-bound double amputee living in a group home in Houston, became unruly.

How did amputees or amputee groups feel about the throwing of the leg itself, this viewer wondered.

In 2007, Heather Mills—an amputee and alpine skier (and yes, the former wife of Paul McCartney)—danced on the show.

Both Mills and Purdy can afford whatever devices and training they want—not something the average amputee can boast.