Army veteran Stefan Leroy, a former sergeant from Santa Rosa, Calif., encourages his teammates during sitting volleyball preliminaries against Team Nederlands for the 2017 Invictus Games at the Pan Am Sports Centre in Toronto, Canada, Sept. 26, 2017. After losing both his legs to an improvised explosive device in 2012 while deployed in Afghanistan, Leroy spent two years learning to adapt to his prosthetics, drawing strength from friends and the other amputees at his medical treatment facility; competing in the Boston Marathon just 16 months after his last surgery in 2014.

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