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Top US wheelchair racer could go home with 5 golds

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tatyana McFadden came into the Rio Paralympics with a chance to win seven gold medals, from the 100 meters to the marathon, an unprecedented feat for a wheelchair racer.

Depending on how she does this weekend, she'll go back to the United States with anywhere between four and six medals, at least three of them gold.

A disappointment? Nope. Not for an athlete who is probably America's best-known Paralympian.

"The 100 meters is one of the toughest races, especially being a marathoner," McFadden said after she closed hard but failed to catch China's Liu Wenjun on Sept.