This is a story that begins on April 26, 1986. On that day, a nuclear accident occurs in one of the reactors of Chernobyl power plant, in the USSR. Nearby Ukraine is suffering the full consequences. Oksana Masters is living proof of this. Born on June 19, 1989, in Khmelnytskyi, in the heart of the country now at war with Vladimir Putin, she was born with one leg shorter than the other and 12 fingersincluding five glued.
Abandoned by her poor biological parents, the orphan lives from foster home to foster home, starving. “I have been raped, every day, between the ages of 5 and 7“she revealed to the media The Player Tribune in 2020. The nightmare ended in the spring of 1996 when Gay Masters, an American speech therapy teacher, took her in from an orphanage.
Oksana Masters: From Chernobyl to the Paralympics
USA dazzles young Ukrainianand recently arrived in New York with her adoptive mother, without speaking a word of English. “It’s by looking episodes of Scooby-Doo to the chain that I have learned english“the athlete confides today, with a smile on her lips, to France Info. Fitted with prosthetics, the teenager overcomes her handicap with the help of sport: dancing, baton twirling, horse riding, figure skating…
And Rowing seduces hera coach warns him: “You’re too small to do anything good on the water!” Driven by the desire to win, Oksana Masters strives (…)
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