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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Miyo Padi

Plucky 11-year-old aims for Paralympic glory as a swimmer just 15 months after her left leg was amputated below the knee because of cancer

A plucky 11-year-old is making a splash as a swimmer just 15 months after her left leg was amputated below the knee because of two rare forms of cancer and is going for gold as she aims for Paralympic glory.

When a golf ball-sized lump came up on her left foot in the summer of 2020, Sophia Houlston  was a perfectly healthy nine-year-old and doctors suspected it was simply a build-up of fluid.

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