The 13-year-old blind girl Lola Walters impressed audiences at the American Gymnastics Academy Long Beach Open earlier this year.

But she is legally blind, and suffers from a disease called nystagmus which causes her eyes to shift constantly, leaving her with double vision and no depth perception.

Even though judges knew nothing of her condition they were amazed by her abilities.

Her mother, Beth, adopted Lola when she was two years old from an orphanage in Bulgaria.

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