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" I remember seeing the Olympics when I was 13. I always wanted to know how it felt to stand on top of the podium hearing your country's anthem while watching your flag being raised in something you poured your heart and soul into. "

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" I can go days without eating if I don't think about food. Your mind, to protect itself, learns not to pay attention to that hunger feeling. "

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Think

Eating

" Cycling's primarily a pushing motion, and skiing is more pulling, so it kind of balances out the body. "

" I am very lucky to be living my dream. "

" Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food. "

Oksana Masters

Food

Growing

" It's insane going from skiing to cycling. Even though you are in prime shape, you feel like you have never worked out a day in your life. "

" I was born with legs, but they were so deformed. "

" I was a troublemaker. "

Oksana Masters

Troublemaker

" The biggest challenge during competition is keeping my real legs warm with clothing, because I have poor circulation in the tissue around the amputated areas. "

" In 2013, I had the chance to try cross-country skiing on snow and just fell in love with being in nature and how hard it was to pick up the sport. And the snow is sparkly. "

" When you're using your upper body to live, you get to know how to move every muscle. "

" I'm chasing that gold medal. "

" I don't know why, but I love sunflowers, and I just have this vivid memory of being in a field of sunflowers and how they felt like trees. They felt so tall. "

" The mind is really powerful. "

" I think it is very unfortunate that there is a ban on adoptions in Russia. "

" When I ski, I take both of my legs off and get into a sit ski: a ski with a custom seat that has been molded for me. I use my core and arms to propel myself on snow with help from ski poles. "

Oksana Masters

Myself

Legs

" I started doing sports when I was 13 and competitively doing sports - where I was actually training - when I was 17. "

" When I first had my legs amputated, it was hard for me to be positive and feel pretty. Many people don't know that someone with a disability can be strong and beautiful and successful as an athlete. "

" I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it. "

" I never thought I'd be able to go back to Ukraine. "

" Just keep moving forward. "

" I like to keep my hair and makeup routines easy and simple on race days. "

" I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat. "

" In 2012, I was invited to a ski event called the Hartford Ski Spectacular to learn how to sit-ski for the first time. I loved it, but it was not pretty - I was not good. I didn't know how to stop, so I kept throwing myself on the ground. "

" Sports were a way for me to get comfortable with my body. I learned to appreciate everything I could still do. "

" I was a super active kid, so I've always been aware of where my body is in space, and I think when I had my legs amputated, it makes you more aware of your body, and because I don't use my legs, I use more of my hands. "

" It's hard to understand the athlete's lifestyle. You literally eat, sleep, train. You go to training camps in the winter where there is no Internet, you can't make phone calls. "

" I definitely did not like my body when I first started sports. I didn't like my body just in general as a teenager. Being a girl and a teenager with two prosthetic legs and two hands that were misshapen that had so much reconstructive surgery on them, I thought my world was over - put a zit on top of that, and then my life is completely over. "

" I'm a coffee lover. "

Oksana Masters

Coffee

Lover

" I wear my prosthetics legs every day, and when I train in the gym, I call them my Lamborghini, because both legs and sockets, which extend up to my hips to keep the legs on via a suction seal, cost about $305,815. "

" I'm just stupid and too headstrong. "