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Tatyana McFadden to tackle seven events in Rio Paralympics

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As she rode the train to Moscow to begin her new life, Tatyana McFadden had no idea how appropriate the word she sang over and over was.

Hollywood. The place where dreams and reality are intertwined and the only limits are those of your own making.

After spending her first six years in an orphanage and facing an even bleaker future, that little girl on the train is now living a life straight out of Hollywood. She’s become one of the most prominent faces of the Paralympic movement, winning 11 medals at the Games and sweeping the Boston, London, Chicago and New York marathons the last three years — and counting.