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The Paralympic Games will get underway in August in Tokyo, where one Baltimore athlete will look to add to her already record-breaking career.Six months out from the Paralympic Games, the most-decorated swimmer in history, Jessica Long, has eyes on a fifth trip to the games in a journey that is attracting more attention than ever before.Long has 23 Paralympic medals 13 gold. They represent achievements that have vaulted Long to the forefront Paralympic swimming fame.But her journey to stardom, adoption to America from Siberia and the perseverance to be great transcends sports. Her story reached more than 60 million people in a TV commercial during the 2021 Super Bowl. It s so funny. I was so nervous that it wasn t going to be received well because it s still my story. It s very raw, personal and everyone got a chance to so see it, Long said. So, I was like, do people like it? Are people going to like the story? Like, that s my life. And it was received, I think, really we ....