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Declan Farmer Finished the 2026 Winter Paralympics as Para Ice Hockey's All-Time Leading Scorer. He Found the Sport at Nine Looking for Something He Could Win.
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Declan Farmer Finished the 2026 Winter Paralympics as Para Ice Hockey's All-Time Leading Scorer. He Found the Sport at Nine Looking for Something He Could Win.

By Brock Jefferson
...underdeveloped. Both legs were amputated before his first birthday. He uses prosthetics. In daily life, he walks on them without obvious difficulty; one amputation is above the knee and one is below, which creates an asymmetry that affects how he moves on land. It doesn't affect how he plays on ice. Para ice...
Joe Pleban Is Heading to His First Paralympics After Choosing Amputation at 21
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Joe Pleban Is Heading to His First Paralympics After Choosing Amputation at 21

By Brock Jefferson
...no more competitive athletics, or amputation. He chose amputation. Before the...athletics, or amputation. He chose amputation. Before the surgery in June 2014,...planned. What followed did not. Post-amputation nerve pain and phantom limb pain...specifically for that kind of chronic post-amputation pain. When he finally got back on...
How Paralympic Classification Works: The System Behind the Sports
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How Paralympic Classification Works: The System Behind the Sports

By Brock Jefferson
...specific sport. Here's the distinction: a sprinter with an above-the-knee amputation and a sprinter with a below-the-knee amputation experience the same event...with an above-the-knee amputation and a sprinter with a below-the-knee amputation experience the same event differently because the biomechanics of running...
Joe Pleban Raced at His First Paralympics. His Daughter's Handprints Were on His Helmet.
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Joe Pleban Raced at His First Paralympics. His Daughter's Handprints Were on His Helmet.

By Brock Jefferson
...which meant no more competitive athletics, or amputation. He chose amputation. Before the surgery in June...competitive athletics, or amputation. He chose amputation. Before the surgery in June 2014, he had a tattoo...went as planned. What followed did not. Post-amputation nerve pain and phantom limb pain kept Pleban...
Noah Elliott Won Silver and Gold at the 2026 Winter Paralympics. He Called Milan His Redemption Games.
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Noah Elliott Won Silver and Gold at the 2026 Winter Paralympics. He Called Milan His Redemption Games.

By Brock Jefferson
...20. He went home with gold in banked slalom and bronze in snowboard cross. What Beijing Looked Like From the Inside. The sutures from his original amputation had torn. By the time he reached China for the 2022 Games, there was no tissue between his femur and the skin. The bone came through. He spent the...

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