Imagine What We Can Do: Vanessa Low

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Vanessa Low is going to her fourth Paralympic Games and the significance of that achievement isn’t lost on her.

When she was 15, she accidentally stumbled from an overcrowded platform and into the path of an oncoming train.

“Honestly we don’t what happened exactly,” Low said. "I was waiting for the train to arrive and ended up on the train tracks and got struck by a train.

“I was missing one of my legs and the other one was severely damaged.”

Low lost her left leg above the knee and right leg through the knee. She sustained head and back injuries and multiple broken bones.

“No one ever thought a person like me could walk, let alone run,” she said.

“That’s why everyone was like, “Well, even if this works and even if running is actually possible, you probably never stand a chance’.”

Despite two weeks in a coma, six months in hospital and nine surgeries, Low says the hardest part of her journey was rediscovering belief in herself and her abilities.

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