tonight we bring you the sto of an amateur athlete, minda dentler, who has also found porful strengthugh sports. >> i take the subway to work, i can see people or notice people know when th ui aimee op nthr"d job," like as if like i've achieved something by like going to work. i was born in bombay india. when i was about six months old i contracted polio, it's a disease that affects your nervous system so my legs became paralyzed. and my birth mother, she realized that she couldn't take care of me, so she decided to leave me at an orphanage.d i was adop an american family at age three and a half, and i moved to spokane washington.i anve a sister the exact same age as me, i was crawling on the ground and my sister was running around, being a typical toddler. d took a long time for me to be able to walk, i undergo a number of surgeries to basically straigen out my hipsy legs, so i could use leg braces and crutches to walk. all of the kids around me, they were able to run and jump and you know, recess time was the worst for me because i wouldn't be able to do much of anything. when i was

a >> you an inspirion minda dentler.are an ironman. >> i was so excited but i was in a lot of pain too, because i had been exercising for a whole 14 hours and 39 minutes, but crossing that finish line was something else. by completing the ironman world champion and just being successful in, in my lif rrving a full time job, having a family, getting d, having a degree, i think, gives me that confidence, knowing it doesn't matter who i am, what i look like, you know i'm able to be successful. is my brief but splar takethis on living with my disability. >> woodruff: you can find more episodes of our brief but spectacular series at pbs.org/newshour/brief. and that's the newshoufor tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you ansee you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> consumer cellular. to learn more, go to consumercellular.tv >> and with the ongoing support of these institutivis and inals. >> this program was made