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Speaker 1: Giapergolini earned the first American gold medal of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four Paralympics in the one hundred meters backstroke S thirteen,

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Speaker 1: with a time just short of her world record. It's

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Speaker 1: the second straight gold medal for Pergolini. She also won

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Speaker 1: the event in Tokyo. Elizabeth Marx, an active duty member

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Speaker 1: of the U. S. Army, picked up the first American

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Speaker 1: medal of the day with a silver in the two

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Speaker 1: hundred individual medley SM six. For more women sports stories,

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