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вЂњI resented my parents a little bit for making me move,вЂќ de Lavalette said. De Lavalette struggled mightily with the move to a new country. She left behind her Parisian riding club and friends at 14 when her family moved to Brussels. Many dressage performers share an exceptional relationship with their horses, but few have the lifesaving bond enjoyed by de Lavalette and her first horse DeeDee.

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The French national cycled through a number of equestrian competitions, but started to focus on the elegant art of dressage on the same pastures as French nobility centuries earlier.Дressage demands a graceful dance between horse and rider, where the two perform a series of predetermined maneuvers. De LavaletteвЂ™s aptitude for horseback riding was practically a birthright - both of her parents and her two brothers rode growing up - and she found herself on a saddle by the age of three.

Her equestrian journey began 200 miles south of Brussels in the Versailles region of France, just south of Paris. De Lavalette was carried out and placed into a medically induced coma at a nearby hospital, where her path towardВ unthinkable hardship and incredible athletic achievement began. She let out an anguished, bilingual plea for help, which caught the attention of a nearby first responder. De Lavalette was tagged as red, meaning she suffered likely unsalvageable injuries, and watched in agony as paramedics prioritized other patients. Her broken leg was contorted at a right angle and her body teemed with shrapnel as she desperately clung to the hand of a nearby passenger.Д®mergency responders stormed into the smoky terminal and started classifying victims on a triage system - from green (standard injuries) to black (already dead). The 17-year-old, blondeВ equestrian lay supine on the dusty floor. вЂњI looked like I was going to die,вЂќ de Lavalette said. She was traveling back to the United States for spring break when a nail bomb detonated just a few feet in front of her in the airport terminal.

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The Paralympic games commence August 24 in Tokyo, and as de Lavalette dons her black riding coat and American flag patch to compete on the United StatesВ Para Dressage Paralympic Team, the red stripes will burn a bit brighter against her grafted skin.Дe Lavalette was one of 340 victims in the 2016 Brussels bombings, a series of attacks conducted by ISIS that claimed the lives of 32 people. More: Bruce Springsteen's daughter Jessica heading for Summer Olympics in horse show jumping De Lavalette courteously answered with a thank you and embraced Simon for a well-deserved hug. Her trainer, Shayna Simon, and her parents erupted into raucous celebration. Beatrice de Lavalette took a phone call in her Lake Worth Beach home Saturday afternoon that confirmed a dream four years in the making - sheвЂ™s going to be a Paralympian.

Games version of my ambitions of a rider