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When Hikaru Nakamura picked up a chess book at age seven, nobody expected the kid from a working-class family to challenge centuries of European chess dominance. What happened next rewrote the rules about who gets to be great.
In 2011, Arunima Sinha was thrown from a moving train by thieves and lost her leg. Doctors told her she would never compete again. Three years later, she stood on the summit of Mount Everest — the first female amputee in history to get there. What happened in between is a story about who gets to decide what's possible.
From a small-city soccer club that Vegas wouldn't touch to a college dropout who built a billion-dollar sports empire out of a failing ski shop, these five stories are about what happens when the numbers say no and the humans involved decide not to listen.