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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • The Paralympic Games are a series of international sporting events involving athletes with an impairment.
  • A gold medal indicates that an athlete finished in first place.
  • Swimming has been an event at the Paralympics since 1960.
  • Béatrice Hess competed as a Paralympic swimmer from 1984 to 2004.
  • She won twenty-five medals.
  • Of these medals, twenty were gold.
Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to emphasize how long Hess’s sport has been a Paralympic event?
A
An accomplished Paralympian with multiple gold medal wins, Béatrice Hess competed as a swimmer from 1984 to 2004.
B
Béatrice Hess competed at the Paralympic Games, a series of international sporting events.
C
Swimming, a sport in which Béatrice Hess took home twenty gold medals, has been an event at the Paralympic Games since 1960.
D
During her career in swimming, which started in 1984, Béatrice Hess took home a total of twenty-five medals, twenty of which were gold.