(Reuters) Ori Lewis - Pascale Bercovitch hurried to catch a train to school in a Paris suburb in 1984. Then 17, she tried to jump onto the departing train but could not hold on. She fell under the wheels, the train severing her thighs and leaving her inches from death. Bercovitch, now a 44-year-old mother of two girls, will represent Israel at the Paralympics. Since moving to Israel she has represented the country in the Paralympics in Beijing as a rower and is now set for London as a hand cyclist. While Israel has earned just one gold medal at the Olympics, it has achieved far greater success in the Paralympics, having amassed 333 medals, 113 gold, since its first participation in 1960.
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