Amy Van Dyken-Rouen has found the perfect competitive outlet as an adaptive athlete.
Jeff MetcalfePHOENIX — It's been almost 20 years since Amy Van Dyken-Rouen swam in her second Olympics.
Amy Van Dyken won two gold medals at the 2000 summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, to go along with the four she won four years earlier in Atlanta.That might entail the improbable — finding a way to walk again even given her severe T11 paraplegia — or something that seems impossible but shouldn't be, like a parking system allowing for handicap parking in the front and wheelchair parking with sufficient access further back.
She began doing adaptive CrossFit last summer while in her native Colorado working out at a gym owned by Kevin Ogar, also paralyzed from the waist down due to a freak weight-lifting accident in 2014. "I was fired up to work with adaptive athletes," Treanor said."I met her in the front lobby and didn't recognize her. I put her through a workout and was talking to her afterwards about how fit she was.""I just felt like a complete idiot," Treanor said."I was star struck almost, but I'm happy I didn't know who she was . I just said, 'No wonder you're so fit.
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