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While the delayed Tokyo Paralympics took place in 2021, Faye Rogers was preparing to start university, months after competing at the Great Britain Olympic swimming trials as an 18-year-old.<\/b><\/p>\n
Now she is aiming to make it to the Paris Paralympics – which only became a possibility after a life-changing moment that she was told would end her career in the pool.<\/p>\n
Rogers was injured in a car accident on the day she was supposed to move to Aberdeen in September 2021. <\/p>\n
It left the Stockton-on-Tees woman with several open fractures to her elbow, which was also dislocated, and a severed ulna nerve, all of which resulted in permanent damage to her arm.<\/p>\n
“About three weeks after the accident, the consultant sat me down and I was told they could save my arm but I wouldn’t be able to compete again,” she told BBC Sport. <\/p>\n
“Afterwards, I turned to my mum, who was at the consultation with me, and just said ‘Watch me’.<\/p>\n
“I got back into the pool and just started kicking and then about four months later someone asked me if I had thought about Para-swimming and it took off from there.”<\/p>\n
Rogers, who is studying biochemistry at the University of Aberdeen, has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the sport, winning gold in the S10 100m butterfly<\/a> at last year’s Para Swimming World Championships in Manchester, as well as bronzes in the 400m freestyle and 200m individual medley.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old says that she is “excited” about what 2024 can bring and “really proud of how far I have come”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n