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PARIS — Five years after losing an eye and having her spinal cord severed while being attacked, Tracy Otto proudly calls herself a Paralympian. Otto is competing for the United States in archery in Paris and is supported by her boyfriend, Ricky Riessle. They were both violently attacked at Otto's home in Florida by her ex-boyfriend. He shot Otto through her left eye with a high-powered pellet gun, punched her repeatedly and knifed the back of her neck. Otto says "I never thought that my life would rise from the ashes as it has." Now, she says she is "so happy to be here and to be considered a Paralympian."
