Jessica Long Biography

The Paralympics, Swimming, the American swimmer admitted the love of Russia who Jessica Long “Russia is in my heart”. Why did the champion from the United States make such a recognition? She was Tatyana to share the comments earlier, then she became Jessica, and the adopted parents gave a ticket to life. At the Paralympiad in Paris, the American swimmer Jessica Long - the star of the World Swimming, a multimpian champion - cannot yet be among the winners.

But she was noted by a very loud statement in which she confessed her love for Russia. Why did she do this? From the Russian orphanage in the United States on February 29, the summer Natalia and Summer Oleg had a blue -eyed girl Tanya with a serious disease - fibular hemimelia. The child had no small bones and many bones of the foot.

Natalia herself connects the ailment of her daughter with a dangerous drug for treating the kidneys, which she was put in the first periods of pregnancy. In the maternity hospital, the young mother was faced with pressure - doctors and relatives demanded to abandon the child with disabilities. Natalia gave up and did so. Little Tanya was in an orphanage in Irkutsk, where she spent the first year of her life.

And Natalya and Oleg, meanwhile, were already expecting a second child. At the same time, in the American city of Baltimore, a married couple Stephen and Elizabeth Long dreamed of replenishing. The family already had two native children, the third could not be pregnant. Then Stephen and Elizabeth thought about adoption. Moreover, the couple wanted to give their love to the kids who needed help.

The Russian athlete became a champion, despite the disappointing diagnosis: "Doctors made terrible diagnoses." An incredible Russian woman’s path to the gold of games in Paris to the eyes of future parents Tanya came across a photo of a monthly refusal of a Russian girl without legs. For the sake of meeting her, Stephen crossed the ocean. She was Tanya, her everyone called little Tanya, ”recalls Stephen.

Together with Tanya, whom the new parents called Jessica, the American couple also adopted a Russian boy with a hare lip, named Joshua. Later, two more native girls appeared in the family, but Jessica-Tyana notes that each child Stephen and Elizabeth were equally treated, each of them grew up in love. Jessica Long Photo: Sean M. Parents were very surprised. We did not even understand what it was all about.

We simply began to study information about Paralympic sport, and we realized how serious and great it is. It was like a snowball, she seemed to take us on this path. Then we only managed to follow her, ”Elizabeth continues. At the age of 12, being the youngest participant in the US team, Jessica went to the Paralympics in Athens, where she won the first, second, and then the third gold.

I was a small outsider, and came out with triple gold, ”recalls Jessica herself. Her determination. Maybe this is her Russian spirit. She was definitely decisive from the very beginning, ”said foster parents who never hid her story from her daughter. The story of an incredible Indian archers: "Most were mocking me." The Indian archer without hands became the star “I adore Russians” Russian American Jessica-Tutyana continued to conquer the heights of Olympus.

In Beijing, a summer girl won four more awards of the highest test, in London added five gold to them. And then I went to Russia, to the village of Tem to get acquainted with the biological family. I worry how everything happens ... But I don’t blame my mother for refusing me. I am immensely grateful to her already for giving me life, ”the athlete continued. In Paris, the Russian American Jessica Long arrived in the rank of a multimpian champion.

She continues to communicate with a biological family in social networks and always notes how he loves Russia. I was born in Russia, I had the name Tatyana there. I love the Russians, this country occupies a special place in my soul. It is very happy to turn to residents of both Russia and the Irkutsk region, where I come from. Hello everyone! The Russian team at the Paralympics in Paris - facts about each participant:.