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...blindness to paralysis compete in the same venues and live in the same Olympic athletes’ village. The competitors in the Paralympics are the “elitest of disabled athletes. They train just as hard if not harder as Olympic athletes,” said Peggy L. Ewald, Kolbe’s high school and Paralympic coach. The U.S. Paralympic swimming team won 44 medals in Beijing. Paralympic swimmers are classified according to the severity of their disability, from S1, the most disabled, to S10, the least. Kolbe is an S3 swimmer. Outside the pool...
...blindness to paralysis compete in the same venues and live in the same Olympic athletes’ village. The competitors in the Paralympics are the “elitest of disabled athletes. They train just as hard if not harder as Olympic athletes,” said Peggy L. Ewald, Kolbe’s high school and Paralympic coach. The U.S. Paralympic swimming team won 44 medals in Beijing. Paralympic swimmers are classified according to the severity of their disability, from S1, the most disabled, to S10, the least. Kolbe is an S3 swimmer. Outside the pool...
Kolbe’s swimming continued to improve under the direction of Ewald, but she would soon add a second coach and a 30-athlete team to her entourage...
Though a Crimson swimmer and busy college student, Kolbe has maintained a relationship with home coach Ewald and continues to train for international competition, often traveling to an exotic location when the Harvard team “is just heading down to Columbia,” Hart noted...
...plan is to stay as consistent in the water and as healthy as possible,” Ewald said. “Since injuries and illness can set an athlete with a disability even further behind...