After nearly drowning at the age of five, I could never have dreamt that one day I would swim competitively, let alone twice at the Olympics—or that I would become the first Black swimmer to hold a world record.
The incident happened, as these occurrences often do, in a setting where kids are supposed to have fun, on a water ride at an amusement park just outside of Philadelphia.
The above is an excerpt of a piece originally published in CNN.
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