After swimming competitively for only 18 months Jessica Long already held five national records. In 2007 she became the first Paralympic Athlete to win the Sullivan Award, an award given to the best American athlete in amateur sports. And, as she prepares for the 2008 Olympics she trains with and beats the best American swimmers who have full use of their legs.
Jessica was born in Russia in  1992 without the fibula bones in her lower legs. She was adopted from Irkutsk, Russia at 13 months. her parents realized that her legs would have to be removed below the knees (because …read more