Double Paralympic champion Alexander Yaremchuk On , he spoke about health problems in his childhood, following which his arm was amputated.
Yaremchuk (T46 class) won gold at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games in the 1,500 meters.
— Running for some is a hobby, for others it is a way to win, for others it is a means of transportation. For me, running is life. When I run, I live.
At the age of five, I went to the hospital for the first time to repair an arm that was not like everyone else’s. And from that moment the hospital hell began. Until I was eight years old, I was constantly in the hospital. On the way back. But then again, the hospital. It was not in my native village or near it in a village, but in the center, in the city of Arkhangelsk, 600 km from my home.
This hell ended with the amputation of my arm, as funny as that sounds. And there are much fewer hospitals,” Yaremchuk said in the film of the series “Faces of the Country” on .
The Paris Paralympic Games ended on September 8. Russian Paralympians competed in neutral status, without a flag or national anthem.
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