Sep 26, 2026
Author Spotlight: Ezra Frech — The Paralympian Who Would Trade Every Medal to Change How the World Sees Disability
A deep dive on Ezra Frech — the Los Angeles-born Paralympic champion who was born with congenital limb differences, received his first prosthetic leg at eleven months old, and won two gold medals at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the 100 metres and the high jump T63; the world-record holder and disability advocate who co-founded Angel City Sports as a child, became the first above-the-knee amputee to commit to a Division I track and field programme, and has spent his life insisting that medals matter only as a vehicle for normalising disability; his defining words on purpose, failure, conviction and the fate of our potential; and the legacy of the 21-year-old who is now carrying the same cause into the ballroom on Dancing with the Stars — 75,000 Wikipedia views in a single day as a new audience discovers him.