USA's paralympic swimmer Jessica Long. Credit
Aimee Mullins is a brave, strong, inspirational woman. She's a paralympian athlete, actress, and model, not to mention that she's beautiful. She was born with a birth defect called Fibular Hemimelia. This basically means that she was born with no fibula bone in either of her legs. After having both of her legs amputated below the knee on her first birthday, Aimee was able to learn to walk with prosthetic legs by the time she was two, and spent her childhood doing the usual athletic activities of her peers: swimming, biking, softball, soccer, and skiing, always alongside “able-bodied” kids.
People magazine named her one of their “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” and recently she was named the new Global Brand Ambassador for L'Oreal. Credit
Kelly Cartwright competes both in running and long jump.Credit
Jeremy Campbell wanted to be the first disabled athlete to throw a discus 60 meters in competition. He'd done it many times in training, but he wanted it on the record books.Campbell first hit the mark in April in California. Then, at the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, England, his throw of 62.18 meters on May 22nd set a daunting new world record — seven meters longer than his gold medal throw at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. Now, Campbell is aiming for gold in the discus at the 2012 London games.
However, that's not his only goal. Campbell, 24, a Texas native who was born without a right fibula, wants to compete against able-bodied athletes in the future. He often practices with the 2-kilogram disc used in regular competition, rather than the 1.5-kilogram Paralympic disc. Credit
