Give them all gold. Ali was an incredible swimmer at Yale, and two days after graduation, she lost her foot and part of her leg in a shark attack while she was swimming in Turks and Caicos. Her teammate applied a tourniquet and she was airlifted to Miami. She underwent surgeries to fight infection, had blood transfusions, and on her 23rd birthday underwent amputation. Bobby spent his early years in a military or orphanage, and following 9 11 joined the army. During a routine mission in Iraq, his Humvee was struck by a roadside bomb and he lost his leg. Sergeant First Class Ellie of the United States Army endured a hip injury while serving as a combat medic in Iraq, started swimming while recovering from her three surgeries, and now does this competitively as a way to honor her brothers and sisters in arms. Hunter had a congenital birth defect. He had his feet, but the fibula in both legs wasn’t there, and he had nine toes. Specialists tried to focus on corrective measures, but at 11 months old, both legs were amputated. Six months later, he was on prosthetics, and years after that, he became the first double amputee to earn an NCA Division 1 scholarship to the university of Arkansas. Oksana was born in Ukraine in the immediate aftermath of Chernobyl and had multiple congenital disabilities affecting her entire body. Her legs were different lengths, her feet had six toes, each hand had five webbed fingers, and no Thumbs shortly after she was born, her biological parents abandoned her, leaving her with orphanages where she endured multiple instances of sexual assault until she was seven years old. An American professor adopted her and moved her to the United States, where she underwent several surgeries to improve her quality of life, including both legs being amputated. I’m sorry. If you are not watching the Paralympics, you are missing superheroes in action.