At the dance studio where she claimed to have trained, he finds a man with prosthetic feet.
There was the man who came in with a prosthetic right foot.
With the National Science Foundation's support, he has started a company to develop a prosthetic foot.
"Based on these insights," he said, "we should be able to build prosthetic feet that require less energy, making it a lot easier to walk."
Since then he has undergone a pioneering operation to add prosthetic feet.
Beside him were his shoes, and inside the right one was a prosthetic foot, necessitated by a misstep on a land mine.
Fernandez, the captain of the 2001 Army team, is now home, walking on prosthetic feet, awaiting the birth of his first child.
At the shelter, he has healed and learned to walk with a prosthetic foot.
Nothing like this had ever happened before and he'd been figuring he'd have to get some kind of prosthetic foot.
After a number of years where Motola was forced to walk on three legs, she was fitted with a prosthetic foot.