Paralysed Olympic star Amy Van Dyken returns to Arizona home


  • Swimming
  • Saturday, 06 Sep 2014

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. Olympic champion swimmer Amy Van Dyken, who was paralysed three months ago in an all-terrain vehicle crash, returned to her Arizona home on Friday in a wheelchair for the first time since the accident, a representative said.

Van Dyken, 41, a six-time Olympic gold medallist, flew to her home state and went to her Scottsdale residence after making a television appearance in New York, her spokesman Mark Zimmerman said.

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