Paratriathelete Melissa Stockwell Gunning for First Gold in Rio

Melissa Stockwell has come back from a lot. She was the first woman in active combat to be injured in Iraq, losing her leg by a roadside bomb. She took that lose and rose up to become one of the top competitors in 2008’s Beijing Games and just narrowly missed medaling as a swimmer for Team USA. But now she is coming back to compete in paratriathlon in Rio, and this time she is confident that a medal will be in her grasps by the end of the games.