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PARIS — Tatyana McFadden and Jessica Long are legends on the Paralympic stage. McFadden, a wheelchair racer, and Long, a swimmer, will each make their sixth summer games appearance in France. She dominated the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro with six medals, four gold. She also was featured in "Rising Phoenix," a Netflix film about the Paralympic movement. Long, meanwhile, has earned a staggering 29 medals, eight gold, in swimming events since she was 12 and the youngest American on the 2004 U.S. team in Athens. And she, too, has made a pop culture impact, as the subject of a 2021 Super Bowl commercial from Toyota
