Former Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen, who suffered a spinal cord injury in an ATV accident, is training to compete in the WheelWOD Games. Tom Tingle, The Republic | azcentral.com
PHOENIX — It's been almost 20 years since Amy Van Dyken-Rouen swam in her second Olympics.
And five years since her spinal cord injury from an ATV accident in Show Low that left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Time passages, the kind that can be tricky since the new normal, as she calls it, is so life altering that it overshadows even her six Olympic gold medals in a way that once never seemed possible.