Incoming president gives WSF new legs

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2006 | by Christine Brennan

Aimee Mullins is wearing her "RoboCop" legs, one of the six pairs of legs that she owns, as she jumps into a cab while talking on her cellphone Wednesday on New York's Second Avenue. Her legs, made of woven carbon fiber with a spring and shock absorber where the middle of her shins would be, allow her to walk quickly, or, as she puts it, "motor around Manhattan." She is racing uptown to a meeting after just returning from Paris, where she spent Fashion Week as director of a new luxury fashion brand from designer Elise Overland.

In this wonderful blur of a whirlwind life, Mullins, 30, is an athlete, model, actress, motivational speaker and president-elect of the Women's Sports Foundation. Oh, and did we mention she has a disability? "Everything I try to do I try to play on...