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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Tatyana McFadden (U.S.) adds 2014 Winter Paralympics medal to 10 Summer Games medals

Ten-time Summer Paralympic medalist Tatyana McFadden took silver in 1km cross-country sprint.
Ten-time Summer Paralympic medalist Tatyana McFadden took silver in the 1 km cross-country sprint.
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) - Tatyana McFadden of the United States added to her 10 Summer Paralympic medals by claiming her first of the Winter Games on Wednesday.

McFadden, who won three titles at the 2012 London Games in wheelchair racing, claimed silver in the cross-country one-kilometer sprint sitting event in Sochi.

Competing in the country of her birth, McFadden was cheered on by her Russian birth mother and her adopted American mother.

McFadden says ''they were here all day holding out for me in the snow. They gave me a lot of extra energy and them being here pushed me forward in all my events.''

McFadden was born with spina bifida and moved to the U.S. at age 6 after being rescued from a St. Petersburg orphanage.

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