At 25, Laís Souza was one of Brazil's best Olympic gymnasts, and she had just heard the exciting news: She had qualified for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games to compete in aerial skiing, a sport she had never heard of before taking it up seven months earlier. Her mood was buoyant as she looked down the slope that day. But something was not right.

“It was the most unbelievably heartbreaking thing I’ve ever heard in my life — someone’s desperation when they can’t move.”
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