2020 Tokyo Paralympics: From cheating death to rowing in gold pursuit

Asiya Mohamed after finishing her Rowing training at The Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, August 25, 2021. [Robin Toskin, Standard]

It would take a cold-blooded and cruel-to-the-bone fiction writer to script Asiya Mohamed’s life starting with a train accident at the age of two.

And to cause you to experience a painful chill down your spine, the writer would paint a picture of a train mowing Asiya’s limbs and three fingers from the left arm, but still let her live through the pain.