U.S. Paralympic swimmer Christine Raleigh Crossley earned two more medals in Paris this week after facing criticism over an earlier medal moment at the Games.

Crossley on Tuesday won the 100-meter backstroke S9, setting a new Paralympic record with her time of 1:07.02. The swimmer, who is a first-time Paralympian, earned a silver medal the following day in the 100-meter freestyle S9.

But last week, after securing a second-place finish in the 50-meter freestyle S9 — and setting a world record in the process — Crossley shared that social media users and other Paralympians had questioned her disability.

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“It’s so great that I just broke a world record and won my first Paralympic medal on the same day,” Crossley said, per USA Today. “But I got off a bus and got verbally accosted by another athlete from another country.

“To be told online by all of these bullies that I’m somehow not as disabled as I appear just because I can swim faster than them is pretty........

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