LONDON (AP) — The explosion that took away Brad Snyder’s sight couldn’t touch the Navy lieutenant’s fighting spirit.

A year after Snyder stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban that he was trying to detect while on duty in Kandahar, the American is swimming at the London Paralympics — and adding sporting medals to his military ones.

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