But just two years later she swam for gold at the 2012 paralympic games.

Victoria arlen paralympics. At the age of 11. Arlen shocked doctors when she woke up after being unresponsive for years. Victoria is back to training for the world's team this summer, though.

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 to walk. Former paralympian swimmer and sportscaster who became one of espn's youngest hired. How victoria arlen willed herself out of paralysis to become a paralympian.

Victoria arlen is a fighter. Arlen posing with her gold medal at the london 2012 paralympic games. Clive rose/getty images following the london games, arlen joined project walk, a paralysis.

Victoria arlen was born on september 26, 1994 in united states. After years in a coma, victoria arlen woke up in hospital locked into her body unable to speak or move. She lost the ability to speak, eat, walk and move.

Victoria arlen has been paralyzed from the waist down since she was 11, but has been disqualified from the paralympic world swimming. 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. The gold medal has not appeased arlen's appetite for competition.

August 14, 2013, 1:16 pm. 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. August 27, 2018, 4:30 am.