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Elitsa Storey
Elitsa Storey is an alpine skier and Paralympian who represented Team USA on the the alpine skiing team at the 2006 and 2010 Paralympics.

Early Life
Elitsa Storey was born in in Bulgaria in 1987. She was born without a knee or ankle joint in her right leg and her left hand was not fully developed, due to amniotic band syndrome. Her parents at the time were 20 years old and put her up for adoption after being informed by the doctor that Elitsa's chances of living were low. Elitsa stayed in two care homes until she was adopted by Janis and Gary Storey of Sun Valley, Idaho, and moved to America at the age of five. After many surgeries, they eventually amputated her left leg. The operation also involved toes being removed from her foot and grafted onto her left hand to form fingers.

Olympic Career
Elitsa was introduced to skiing at age six by her adoptive family soon after the amputation of her leg. Storey stated, "Once I learned how to walk and be mobile again, myself, along with four other siblings, all enjoyed sports and outdoor activities together." In 2002, she was a torch bearer at the Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Elitsa competed in the World Cup Competition in 2005 where she had two top-10 finishes. That same year, she won the bronze medal in the U.S. Championships for the downhill standing, Super G standing, giant slalom standing, and slalom standing events. In 2006, Storey placed sixth for slalom standing, seventh for Super G standing, and ninth place for downhill standing at the Paralympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy. In 2008, Storey placed second in slalom at the Hartford Ski Spectacular in Breckenridge, Colorado. Storey competed as a team member in the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada, but had to pull out due to multiple tears in her knee.

Personal Life
Storey married Adam Hall, a double Paralympic gold medalist, in 2014. The couple met on a chairlift while at a training camp in Winter Park, CO, United States of America, in the lead-up to the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Turin.

While pregnant with her daughter, Gracelynn, in 2018, Storey traveled to Bulgaria and reunited with her biological father, half brother, and grandmother, who she thought was dead.