Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Amy Van Dyken, a celebrated Olympic gold medalist, experienced a life-altering ...

Amy Van Dyken has never been one to avoid a challenge. As a toddler she suffered from severe asthma and couldn’t walk up and down the stairs of her suburban Denver childhood home without gasping for ...

KUSA – It was a milestone that the former Olympian says made her physical therapist emotional. "We took off the top part of my braces. Using my core, which was mostly paralyzed in my accident, I ...

“My glass is always half-full,” Amy Van Dyken tells PEOPLE Amy Van Dyken has never been one to avoid a challenge. As a toddler she suffered from severe asthma and couldn’t walk up and down the stairs ...