This Deaf-Blind Paralympian was Told to Navigate Tokyo Alone. So She Quit Team USA.

Five years ago, Becca Meyers was on the floor of her room in the Olympic Village at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, balled up and sobbing, frustrated and terrified. She had stopped eating because she couldn’t find the athletes’ dining area.

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