Oksana Masters: Racking up medals, overcoming obstacles, and kicking absolute a**

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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17-time Paralympic medalist Oksana Masters joins Kelley O'Hara to discuss her incredible journey from a Ukrainian orphanage to dominating the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games.

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0:00.0	The only thing that really kept me going
0:02.2	and kept me motivated and hungry for life
0:04.4	is to get back out on that boat, though.
0:06.2	And to just, yeah.
0:10.4	And that, I mean, my mom saved my life by adopting me,
0:16.4	but she saved it twice by adopting me
0:18.8	and by introducing the world of sports to me.
0:21.5	But then it was sports that saved it the third time
0:23.8	in that process.
0:25.7	And it is.
0:27.7	Oksana Masters is one of the most accomplished
0:30.2	Paralympic athletes of all time.
0:32.4	A 17-time Paralympic medalist, Oksana
0:35.3	has dominated the competition on the slopes,
0:38.0	on the road, and in the water.
0:39.9	Competing in both the summer and winter Paralympics,
0:42.4	she has won medals in cross-country skiing, road cycling,
0:45.9	biathlon, and rowing.
0:47.8	At the Beijing Paralympics, her second Paralympics
0:50.1	in less than a year, Oksana won seven medals,
0:53.1	including three golds, to become the most decorated
0:56.3	US winter Paralympian of all time.
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