Sports quickly crossed Ali Truwit’s mind after she survived a shark attack off the coast of Turks and Caicos in 2023. But the former Yale freestyler, who went on to win two Paralympic silver medals, was not thinking about swimming.

“Was I ever going to run again?” Truwit remembers wondering. “It was on my mind immediately when I lost my foot, like on the boat ride back to shore.”

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Just two years later, Truwit is preparing to run the TCS New York City Marathon on her prosthetic blade on Nov. 2.

“When those training cycles get hard, when things feel frustrating that I'm running on one foot when I used to do it on two,” she said, “I remind myself of how grateful I am to be doing something that I thought I would never be able to do again. It

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