Faye Rogers: The gold medal-winning Para-swimmer competing in non-disabled race

Yet 12 weeks later, Rogers was again within the pool doing rehab. And by summer season 2024 she was in Paris profitable Paralympic gold. But maybe probably the most outstanding factor of all is that she is faster now than she was pre-accident.

“I never in a million years thought that I could be faster,” Rogers, who’s unable to straighten her proper arm, tells BBC Sport. “Yes, it looks a bit different and there is definitely an impairment there. But I’ve worked harder, I’m fitter, I’m stronger.

“My message is simply ‘do not let anybody inform you what you possibly can and might’t do’. We’re all completely different. We’ve all bought our personal stuff. But I believe something is completely doable when you put your thoughts to it.”

Not many Para-athletes have done what Rogers has.

It was last year that she resolved to put her “huge lady pants on” and act upon a notion she’d had for a while to test where she was in the 200m fly. And the first time she did swim it, she realised she was only just a fraction shy of her pre-accident best.

With that, her mind was made up. She spoke to the selectors and it was agreed that, as long as three other athletes did not post faster times, she could compete at the Commonwealths. They didn’t, and Rogers was in.

“I discovered a few weeks in the past and I’ve been so, so excited ever since,” said the Edinburgh University student before the heats.

“There’s no stress. I believe it is such a privilege to have the chance to face up there and and to indicate different individuals with impairments that, it doesn’t matter what you might be advised, and it doesn’t matter what will get thrown at you, like there is a manner via it.

“We quite often get told we can’t. And this is my way of proving that we can.”