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Allysa Seely Earns Paralympic Gold in Tokyo!
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Thursday, September 9, 2021 Five years after winning the first Paralympic gold medal for triathlon in Rio, Allysa Seely made history again with a repeat victory at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on August 27, 2021. It was a hot, muggy day at Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo, Japan. Temperatures hovered near 28 degrees Celsius, and with 88 percent humidity it felt much hotter. The water was a sweltering 30 degrees Celsius. Allysa Seely, the 32-year-old Liv Racing Collective athlete from the United States, wasn’t lining up at the start as the clear favorite in the race – despite being the defending Paralympic...