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Just under three months after taking over as US manager, she led the side to a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Many of them wore campaign medals showing they had served in Afghanistan, Iraq or the American wider war on terror that was launched following the September 11 attacks in 2001.

He has since won five medals at the Invictus Games and now works as a motivational speaker and for veterans' charities.

Using a light, springy carbon-fibre blade on her right leg, she eventually became a world champion Paralympic long jumper and sprinter for both Canada and Great Britain - winning medals, breaking records and receiving an MBE.

"The customers I've been able to tell about it, they have been overwhelmed to see the medal and stuff - it's really cool," she told BBC News in 2014, while fixing a toilet.