When she takes to the start line in Paris this summer, para-cyclist Oksana Masters can rest assured that she's already overcome challenges far more perilous than any bike race can throw at her.Masters, a seven-time Paralympic champion and 17-time medalist across a range of sports in both the summer and winter Games, heads to the French capital with a backstory few other athletes can rival when it comes to trauma, survival and willpower.From the very start of her life the odds were stacked against her in the most cruel and devastating of manners. Born Khmelnitsky, Ukraine, three years after the disaster, Oksana was forced to grow up with physical defects induced by radiation poisoning from the city's infamous nuclear reactor.
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