After spending half his life hiding his disability, U.S. swimmer Jamal Hill won a bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Paralympics.
From Southern California to Northeast Ohio, many watched Jamal Hill swim, but few actually saw him.
After spending half his life hiding his disability, swimmer Jamal Hill won a bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Paralympics, setting an American record at 25.19 seconds. For many years, Hill’s mother, Sandra Floyd-Hill, had not known she inherited the gene that causes CMT from her mother. When her older brother, who is three years her senior, started showing signs of CMT at age 21, Floyd-Hill thought it was because he had started drinking or partying and the hard lifestyle was causing him to walk with a unique gait. No one told her it was CMT. It just was not something the family talked about.
Symptoms of CMT can vary from person to person, even within the same family. Hill can’t stimulate any muscles from his knees to the soles of his feet, but he can feel external stimuli like banging his shin on a table. It feels as if he’s walking on his knees. From his elbows to the tips of his fingers, his muscles fire at 30% capacity.Ezra Frech, a 16-year-old native of L.A. who attends the Brentwood School, finishes eighth in the high jump in his Paralympic Games debut in Tokyo.
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