From the Telegraph:
"Her secret? Well, there is no secret, she says, no physical or technical trick to compensate for the loss of a limb. Just hard work and obsessive determination. 'There's no real compensation. You just do the hours in the swimming pool, you do the hours of racing and you do the hours of mental preparation. You just go out and give it everything. I don't even think of one leg, two legs. When you're racing in an able-bodied competition you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.'"Thank you, Natalie, for kicking ass and taking names, for being a chick who refused to listen to reason or scientific logic, and for being my inspiration on a rather gloomy, rainy Wednesday. And more importantly, thank you for reminding me that there are no excuses.
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