By Sam Greenhill and Ian Drury and Claire Ellicott Athlete: Kirsty Wallace, pictured in 2011, narrowly missed out on a spot in the Olympic team in 2012 The Royal Navy ‘drunken sailor’ paid £1million after injuring her back during alcohol-fuelled antics is now a Paralympic sports star. Lieutenant Kirsty Wallace, 32, is in Team GB’s wheelchair basketball side and is described as an elite athlete. Despite fears she would be paralysed from the waist down after the accident seven years ago, she managed to stand with splints after just six weeks and did without her wheelchair to walk down the aisle at her wedding in 2011.
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Lieutenant Kirsty Wallace injured after falling of human pyramid in 2007
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32-year-old feared paralysed from waist down after alcohol-fuelled night
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But she managed to walk without wheelchair down aisle in 2011
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Now poster girl for Navy and key member of wheelchair basketball team
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