Today Anastasia Pagonis 🇺🇸 has broken the Women’s 400m Freestyle S11 WORLD RECORD!
Para swimmer and queen of social media chatted with us about how excited she was to be here. Well, now she is a World Record holder. 👏🏼
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“If you have faith in yourself, you can push through,” Shepherd tells PEOPLE.
At 13 years old, Shepherd told herself that she would be a Paralympic athlete, and today she’s part of Team USA.
That faith has pushed her through a life with challenges that began as a baby in Vietnam. At 14 months old, her birth parents held their healthy baby girl between them and detonated a suicide bomb. The force, she’s been told, propelled her into the air.
Her parents died, and she lost both of her legs. Yet she says that she doesn’t carry resentment for what happened. “That’s a life I never lived; I don’t remember it,” she says.
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Anastasia Pagonis will be competing in four Paralympic events.
Tune in for the Men’s & Women’s Swimming Finals on Day 2 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Nirvana’s “Nevermind” is as iconic for its songs as it is for the picture on the album cover. The naked baby boy swimming underwater chasing a dollar bill on a fish hook was number six on Rolling Stone’s list of greatest albums of all time. But 30 years later, that image is now embroiled in controversy. Spencer Elden is now claiming his parents never signed a release and that the nude image of him used on the cover constituted child pornography. Elden’s parents were reportedly paid just $200.
The 2x Olympic gold medalist talks with CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith about the International Swimming League on CBS Sports, her experience at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and being a mentor to younger Team USA swimmers.
Tune in for the Men’s & Women’s Swimming Heats on Day 2 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
