Aug 26, 2017
Peruvian beats the odds to become a badminton champ
Peruvian beats the odds to become a badminton champ
Despite her short stature, Peru’s Giuliana Poveda faces life’s challenges with outsize optimism. At just 16, Poveda, who suffers from the bone disorder achondroplasia, a common cause of dwarfism, already won gold and silver medals for Peru at the 2017 World Dwarf Games, which were recently held in Ontario, Canada. In singles, she beat Australia’s Koby Donovan in two sets to win gold. And in…
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