Victoria arlen (born september 26, 1994) is a current television personality for espn, as well as an actress, speaker, model, and former american paralympian swimmer.

Victoria arlen paralympics swimming. Paralympic swimmer victoria arlen says she is being penalised for having hope after she was deemed ineligible to compete at the ipc world. August 14, 2013, 1:16 pm. But one thing she is not is permanently disabled, says the.

“following her classification at the london 2012 paralympic games last august, ipc swimming requested a medical report into her impairment. Victoria arlen has been paralyzed from the waist down since she was 11, but has been disqualified from the paralympic world swimming. Victoria arlen’s life drastically changed in 2006 at the tender age of eleven when she developed two rare conditions known as transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.

Thereafter, victoria arlen competed in the women’s swimming event at the 2012 summer paralympics in london, just two years after her surgery. 'i really want to make it. In 2012, she competed in the london paralympics for the united states's swim team.

Victoria arlen is a fighter. 2012 paralympic games, gold (100m freestyle), silver (50m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle relay). Recovery can mean healing from a small scab or a minor injury, but for paralympic gold medalist and former world record holder victoria arlen, it meant learning how.

That takes down the old record of britain’s eleanor simmonds, one of the world’s. Paralympic gold medalist victoria arlen has been told she cannot take part in the montreal world championships because she is not disabled enough. That happened when victoria arlen broke the ipc world record in the s6 women’s 400 freestyle in 5:24.46.