So the Olympics are over, and who won anyway? Seems no set way to judge that – China had the most golds and the USA the most overall.
That will be argued on both sides I assume, but there were some clear winners to me. The female athletes below didn’t win medals or get the press many others did, but it’s impossible to say they didn’t achieve victory.
Natalie du Toit of South Africa, who lost her leg in an accident a few years ago, became the first amputee swimmer to compete in the Olympics. She swam the 10km marathon open water, and finished a very credible 16th place.
19yr old Polish table tennis player Natalia Partyka, who was born with a right arm that ends at the elbow, made history being the first table tennis player to compete at both the Olympics and Paralympics.
Homa Hosseini broke many barriers when she represented the traditionally strict nation of Iran in Olympics as a rower, where she was her country’s flagbearer at the Games opening ceremony.
