Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams
of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered.
After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again.
Lis tried anyway. How do you stay on a horse without using your legs?
How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with limited
mobility? With hard work--and an unlikely horse named Jubilee. After
years of training together and creating a new way of communicating, Lis
and Jubilee danced into the competition ring, and eventually all the way
to the Olympics. Lis Hartel was the first woman with a disability ever
to win an Olympic medal, and the first woman to stand equally beside men
on the Olympic winners' podium in any sport.