Temple rower leaves Paralympics with a silver medal and a newfound community

Before Gemma Wollenschlaeger was two years old, she had already undergone multiple surgeries to correct her clubfoot. Surgeons sliced into her tendons and reformed her foot to give her as much mobility as possible, but the operations didn’t fully mend her birth defect and left her ankle immobilized. “I…

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