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[man 1 in French]
It's funny because
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when you see the last Marvel Avengers,
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well... it's a team of
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superheroes...
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who try to save humankind,
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save people,
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fight for success.
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And, well, we are quite similar.
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[energizing music playing]
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[rain gushing]
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[man 1] We are all superheroes...
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because we have all experienced tragedy.
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We have all lived through something
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that didn't allow us to succeed.
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That's where our strength lies.
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Life is a fight.
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We are trying to save the world.
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[man 2 in English] The Olympics
is where heroes are created.
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The Paralympics is where the heroes come.
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[energizing music playing]
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[metal scraping]
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[woman 1] At the age of 12,
I was part of a scout group.
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They gave you, like,
this kind of nickname.
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My name was the Rising Phoenix.
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[camera flashing]
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Because the phoenix can live and die
and burn and live again.
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My scout group saw me in each step,
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living, burning, dying, then live again.
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When I was really young,
my coach came to me and he told me,
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"There is the paradise,
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and the name of paradise is Olympic Games.
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You just need to work a lot, every day,
every hour as best as you can,
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in order to get to the Olympic Games."
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So, I was dreaming about Olympic,
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and then it changed to the Paralympic,
but it's almost is the same thing.
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[spectator] Bebe!
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[indistinct chatter]
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[Bebe Vio] When I was 14 years old,
I was a torch bearer
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to represent
all the future Paralympic athletes.
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[crowd clapping and cheering]
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[man 2] If you look at the history
of the Paralympic Games,
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there have been all the ups and downs,
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you know, one good, one not so good.
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If you needed to choose a place
where you think we can be successful,
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that will be London.
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It's our birthplace, the country
that created the Paralympic movement.
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Organizing events and being creative
and challenging stereotypes.
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London is the capital of the world.
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[reporter 1] The organizers of London 2012
began preparing for the Paralympics.
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[reporter 2]
According to the charity Mencap,
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reported disability hate crime
is at a record high
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and anything, therefore, that adjusts
attitudes toward disability matters.
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[man 2]
When I mentioned to colleagues of mine
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that I was going to go to this interview
for the Paralympic Games,
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the majority of people told me,
"Don't get involved."
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"This is sport
for atheletes with disability."
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"No, that's too complicated.
It's not really sport."
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[male reporter] All eyes will be
on the world's Paralympians,
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as their emblem replaces the five rings.
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During the Olympics,
four or five days before the end,
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all these black billboards
seemed to spring up,
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saying "Thanks for the warm-up."
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That was advertising the Paralympics
on TV, coming.
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"Thanks for the warm-up."
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I mean, I'm not sure the Olympics
would be happy with that,
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but I tell you, it touched a spot with me.
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Philip doesn't want to be second,
he wants to be first.
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-[commentator] Craven still has it.
-[Xavi Gonzalez] He had been an athlete.
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And he wanted that the other athletes
had even better opportunities than he had.
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[commentator]
But two more for Phil Craven.
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Xavi Gonzalez, good guy, good guy.
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If it's not right between the president
and the CEO, forget it.
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We wanted to change the way people
saw people with a disability.
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[crowd cheering]
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[man 1 in French] It was a home for...
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all nations.
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It's like a team sport,
not an individual sport.
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We often stick together.
When we go to competitions,
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we are always there
to cheer each other on.
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[man 2 in English]
Just that whole atmosphere
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of being a part of something bigger
than just yourself, it was incredible.
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[woman 1] It's like
this unspoken mission that we have.
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Every Paralympian has had a life
where they've been told,
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time and time again, that,
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you know,
life is gonna be too impossible for them.
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[crowd chanting]
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[man 2] The Iraqi team was literally,
like, a foot from us,
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and we had people on our team
that were injured in Iraq.
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The world needs to see more of that.
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[uplifting music playing]
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We are headed into the opening ceremonies.
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[crowds cheering]
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[Stephen Hawking] The Paralympic Games
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is also about transforming
our perception of the world.
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We are all different.
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There is no such thing as a standard
or run-of-the-mill human being.
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[Phillip Craven] We had to provide
multiple stages
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upon which they could perform
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and show the world and inspire the world
and excite the world.
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The Games are the shop window
of the movement.
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The Games are the main thing that can
keep the movement moving forward.
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[uplifting music continues]
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I declare open
the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
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[female reporter] There it is, the Agitos,
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the Paralympic logo hanging magnificently
from Tower Bridge in London.
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It's my first Paralympics.
I'm only gonna be 19 years old.
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Good morning!
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[man 1]
You feel worried about
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the horror stories about the history
of the Paralympics, like quiet stadiums.
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You never know what it's gonna be like
until you get there, basically.
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[woman]
It's not consistent at all.
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So, I was, like,
apprehensive and nervous.
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[man 1] They walk you under the stadium,
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because they have a track where everyone
does their final bit of preparation.
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All the athletes are together.
It's very serious.
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[man 2] A lot of people,
based on what they'd been told,
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thought it was gonna be a failure
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and that they weren't gonna be able
to sell tickets.
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[crowd loudly cheering and applauding]
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The stadiums were packed.
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The sport was incredible.
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-[crowd cheering]
-[commentator] Oh, that's an amazing shot!
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That's got to be
the shot of the championship.
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But what they saw was undoubtedly
better than the Olympics itself.
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-[announcer] Set.
-[starting pistol fires]
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-[energizing music playing]
-[crowd cheering]
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[commentator] The atmosphere
is absolutely electric!
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Zhang on the inside,
Dave Weir's going wide.
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Dave Weir needs to draw on
all the reserves of confidence
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and strength here,
because this is so, so close. Zhang!
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Dave Weir's now taking the lead.
Dave Weir's done it again!
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We have been graced by greatness tonight.
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[crowd cheering]
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[Duke of Sussex] For me,
and for so many people out there,
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especially young kids...
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...to see individuals like that...
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...go on and achieve
what they've achieved...
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...no amount of books that you read,
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no amount of teaching in class
that you can have...
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...is going to give you
the same inspiration
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as being able to watch something
which you've been told is impossible.
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[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
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it is now the final
of the women's 100m Freestyle S9.
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Representing Australia, Ellie Cole.
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[crowd cheering]
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[whistle blows three times]
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[Ellie Cole] People have so many different
physicalities in the Paralympics
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compared to the Olympics.
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In the Olympics,
all the bodies look the same.
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And then in the Paralympics,
none of the bodies look the same.
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[whistle blowing]
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It is absolutely petrifying the moment
before you race at the Paralympics.
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-[announcer] Take your marks.
-[starting buzzer beeps]
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[water ripples]
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[Ellie Cole] That cold water hits you,
and you think, "This is it."
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"This next minute is probably going to be
the biggest minute of my entire life."
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I want as many people in the world
to see the Paralympics as possible,
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because if my parents
had known about the Paralympics
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back when I was three years old,
they would've had so much more hope
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in what people with disabilities can do.
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[Ellie Cole's mom]
Oh, Ellie's first day walking.
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Come on, Ellie.
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[Ellie Cole] I was actually born
a healthy child,
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but one day my mum was changing me,
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and she found this bump
behind my right knee.
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The doctors told them
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that I had a very rare form of cancer
called a neurosarcoma.
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-[Ellie Cole's dad] Ellie?
-What?
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-I love you.
-I love you.
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And so, I underwent
quite a lot of chemotherapy.
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With this chemotherapy,
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I was actually getting more sick
than I was from the cancer.
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And the tumor wasn't getting any smaller.
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My parents had to make the decision
to amputate my leg
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just after I turned three years old.
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[heart monitor beeping]
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[indistinct chatter]
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[Ellie Cole's mom] She said today,
"I want my foot back."
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-[chuckles]
-[woman] That's great.
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This is your foot, isn't it, Ellie?
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It's staying right where it is.
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[Ellie Cole] I asked my mum
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why she was so scared
to have my leg amputated,
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and she was worried that I was going to be
a completely different girl.
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My parents didn't know anybody else
that had a disability,
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and they were so worried that
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any opportunity
that I was ever going to have
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when I was born was all of a sudden
going to be taken away from me,
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just in that one day.
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The thing about living in Australia is
that everybody needs to know how to swim.
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[Ellie Cole's mom] Ellie, straight arms.
Ellie? Straight arms.
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I was swimming round in circles
for quite a while. [chuckles]
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Swimming is one of the only sports
that I could have done as a kid
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where I didn't feel like
I had a disability.
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So I absolutely loved swimming.
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I told my mum
that I wanted to be a ballerina,
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because I'd just seen Swan Lake.
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And I was like, "Oh, they're so graceful,
and I wanna be graceful."
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Turns out I've probably had
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one of the most graceful
swimming techniques
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on the Australian swim team now
because I really enjoy that aspect of it.
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[commentator]
Ellie Cole, having the swim of her life,
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at 20 years of age, from Australia.
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-Cole is third.
-[Ellie Cole's mother] Go, Ellie!
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[woman] Come on, Ellie!
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[Ellie Cole] If I think back
to young Ellie, I don't like to be beaten.
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[woman] Go!
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[Ellie Cole] I decided that I wanted to be
the fastest kid in my squad,
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regardless of having one leg.
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[commentator] Cole now in the lead.
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Look at this form. Cole, front lane six.
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[crowd cheering]
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[commentator] Ellie Cole,
absolutely phenomenal!
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[Ellie Cole] For me to be able
to make my mum so happy like that,
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it's the silver lining of being sick.
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[Bebe Vio] I was not doing the Paralympics,
so I had the opportunity to stay there
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for the entire period
of the Paralympic Games.
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[in Italian] Hi, this is Bebe.
Today I'm doing my first commentary.
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[in English] I met so many Paralympic
athletes and I fell in love with them,
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because when you see someone, you just
wanna know what's their story before.
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Because why are they on the wheelchair?
Why are they without arms and legs?
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And there are just funny stories,
and there are less funny stories.
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"Just tell me what you did, please."
[laughs]
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[commentator in French]
The long jump final...
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[in French] It was the first time
in my life I'd seen a stadium so full.
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[shouts]
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[commentator] Jean-Baptiste Alaize
is one of the favorites.
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-[yells]
-[crowd cheering loudly]
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[cheering fades out]
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[Jean-Baptiste Alaize] I chose long jump,
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wanting to flee from something, I think.
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A sense of...
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leaving and never coming back.
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Of flying,
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of escaping...
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I saw so much in a short time, growing up.
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I lived through the worst thing,
as a child.
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I was haunted by this one nightmare.
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I struggled to move on, to forget.
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I am a survivor of the Burundi civil war,
in 1993.
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I remember everything,
as if it was yesterday.
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The Hutus wanted to exterminate
all Tutsi reproductive families,
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every mother and child.
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I was three years old.
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I didn't understand what was happening,
why they were doing this.
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I tried to flee from the killers
with my mother.
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But...
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not fast enough.
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And then I received four machete blows.
That's how I lost my leg.
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And another blow to my arm.
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And here, on my head, and one to my back.
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And after that, I was forced to witness...
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forced to watch as my mother
was murdered in front of me.
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Yeah.
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I woke up in a hospital.
Had I been dead for four or five days?
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I had external and internal bleeding.
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Extraordinary. Three years old,
and I survived this...
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this massacre.
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And then I had to rebuild my life,
in an orphanage. Alone, abandoned.
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[panting]
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Why do I love running and jumping?
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It's as if I'm trying to escape
what happened.
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[panting]
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I run to escape.
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Falling, getting up again.
Falling, getting up again. That's life.
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And this is relevant for many people.
And I understood it very early.
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And today, sport is what has saved me.
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[yelling]
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At my first Games,
I didn't learn about victory,
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but I learned a lot about humanity.
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[Xavi Gonzalez in English] In the
Paralympic sport, everybody has a story.
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It comes from them breaking barriers
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to be able to achieve
what they wanted to achieve.
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Move on and live life,
even if others may think that you cannot.
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[crowd cheering]
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When I was younger, I had lots of dreams.
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I wanted to be a BMX rider and I was
gonna do backflips and all sorts of stuff.
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And I remember telling my dad
I'm gonna be the next Michael Jordan,
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back when Michael Jordan was the king.
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[commentator 1] Steal.
He kept it inbounds. Here it is again.
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-[whistle blows]
-[both commentators] Oh!
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There was no way
I was gonna be Michael Jordan.
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No way.
286
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I'm not tall enough, right?
287
00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,840
But the one thing that caught my attention
the most was cars.
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I can drive it with my feet and outrace
90% of the people around me.
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[engine roaring]
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The car doesn't stereotype the driver.
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It doesn't care if you have arms
or don't have arms.
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It just wants to be driven.
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That's why I fell in love with archery.
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A bow just wants to be shot.
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00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,200
The doctors said
that there's no medical reason
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on why I was born without any arms.
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This is how I am. Merry Christmas.
[chuckles]
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My mom and dad tell stories all the time
about how or why they decided to adopt me.
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They weren't looking for anybody
with a physical or mental disability.
300
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Then someone calls them up and said,
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"Hey, we have this kid,
you should come check him out."
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They're like, "Oh, and he has no arms."
303
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And "Well, maybe we should
think about this a bit."
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They decided to take me out to eat,
and I'm putting my face in my food,
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like, I'm... [chuckles]
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I'm eating like an animal,
kind of, like, legitimately.
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My two older sisters and my older brother
were there, and my parents said,
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"Notice that everybody in this restaurant
is staring at him right now."
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"Is this what you guys want?"
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And they were like,
"We aren't leaving without him."
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And they took on the hard challenge
of teaching me how to adapt to the world,
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versus the world adapting to me.
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So, at a very young age,
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they were like, "We know you can do it.
You can do it."
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And I'm like, "No, I have no arms.
Please help me."
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00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,080
And they're like,
"Nope, sorry. You'll figure it out."
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[chuckles]
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Probably within, like, a year or so,
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I started enjoying the fact that I had
that freedom of trying new things.
320
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,760
I remember when I was younger,
I saw my brother climb an apple tree
321
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,520
and I wanted to climb that apple tree.
322
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,640
And I remember my dad said,
like, "Hey, go ahead, climb the tree."
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"You know,
if you climb up the tree by yourself,
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you have to climb down it by yourself."
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And I was stuck up there
for, like, 40 minutes.
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But they didn't help me, and I got down,
and it taught me a super valuable lesson.
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Even though I don't have any arms,
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that I can still do everything
that everybody else can do.
329
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I just have to try.
330
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,000
And if it wasn't
for all that kind of stuff,
331
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,880
I never would have tried to ride a bull,
and I did, right?
332
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,120
And that's where
I got my first concussion.
333
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,480
But if they were way more strict,
I wouldn't have done that.
334
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[announcer] Representing the United States
of America, it is Matt Stutzman.
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[crowd cheering and applauding]
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[Matt Stutzman] We did a brain scan
on my brain once,
337
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and they realized
that the average person's brain,
338
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that operates the feet,
is like the size of a pea,
339
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:40,360
and mine is probably
just a little shy of a baseball.
340
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I feel like that was my gift.
341
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:47,560
I was blessed with the ability
to use my feet like hands.
342
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[crowd clapping and cheering]
343
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,440
They made out the Olympic Village
was more like a Club 18-30.
344
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:03,440
[laughing]
345
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,560
What was it like
in the Paralympian Village?
346
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,240
Did you get your blade over much?
347
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,480
[audience laughing]
348
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,400
I can't answer these questions.
349
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,280
-Come on!
-You never shagged a single person there?
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[audience laughing]
351
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,240
[audience applauding]
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00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,800
[reporter] Jonathan Peacock
from Shepreth in Cambridgeshire
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00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,040
had yet another operation
on his leg a few weeks ago.
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00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:28,800
[Jonnie Peacock]
In 2011, any interview I did,
355
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pretty much the first question was,
"How did you lose your leg?"
356
00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:36,480
In the months leading up to London
and constantly after London,
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it was all about the sport.
358
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And there was a huge shift
from story to sport,
359
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,080
and that was incredible for me to see.
360
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,160
I was never gonna do anything
other than 100.
361
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,080
Probably too lazy to run further,
more than anything else.
362
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,240
Yeah, 100 meters suits me perfectly.
363
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,960
[commentator] And now a world superstar,
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00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,680
in Oscar Pistorius,
the most famous Paralympian of all time,
365
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:12,560
up against the world record holder
from Great Britain, Jonnie Peacock.
366
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,640
[crowd cheering]
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[Jonnie Peacock]
The names in this race are huge.
368
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:21,840
I'll be happy with a medal.
369
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:25,440
[commentator] There's Pistorius.
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[Jonnie Peacock] Before the race,
I remember Oscar came up to me,
371
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,880
and he goes, "Do you mind
if I just say a prayer for you?"
372
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And he just grabbed my hand,
and he was just like,
373
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pray to God that he hoped
that I could go and do my thing.
374
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,080
And basically,
he said, "Look, this is yours."
375
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:43,360
I really looked up to him
376
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,840
for all that he'd done
for Paralympic sport,
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00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,960
and obviously,
at the time, he was my idol.
378
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,280
Oscar was the face of the Games.
379
00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,200
[commentator]
This is the cheer for Pistorius.
380
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,320
[crowd cheering loudly]
381
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,840
I was like, if I can get a little cheer
compared to Oscar, I'll be really happy.
382
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,320
[commentator] And here's Peacock.
383
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,520
[cheering grows louder]
384
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,520
[chuckles] I could not believe it.
385
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,240
I started hearing my name being chanted,
which is just absurd.
386
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,920
[crowd] Peacock! Peacock! Peacock!
387
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,360
[announcer 1] Gentlemen, stand up, please.
388
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,840
[Jonnie Peacock] This doesn't happen
in athletics. It's meant to be silence.
389
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,880
So I'm just, like,
telling everyone to just be quiet.
390
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,160
[commentator 1]
Peacock's asking them to be quiet.
391
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,480
He wants silence,
and the crowd just need to listen.
392
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,560
Next thing I know... [sighs]
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00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:35,680
we're in the blocks.
394
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,080
[announcer 2]
Once again, quiet for the start, please.
395
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[commentator 2]
Extraordinary tension around this stadium.
396
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[announcer 1] Set.
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00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:52,840
[starting pistol fires]
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00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,400
[crowd cheering]
399
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,160
[intense music playing]
400
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,320
[Jonnie Peacock] I don't really remember
anything before 60 meters.
401
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:04,560
It's what we train for.
402
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,560
When that gun goes off in the race,
you just do it without thinking.
403
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000
And at that point, I was in the lead.
404
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,480
But the issue is, I suddenly
get focused on the wrong things.
405
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,280
All I thought was, "Oscar's gonna be
coming past me in a minute."
406
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,160
Because in every previous
Paralympic finals,
407
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,120
Oscar kept just pip
single leg on the line,
408
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,560
by the tiniest of margins.
409
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,880
I just absolutely shit my pants.
[chuckles]
410
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,120
I'm just getting so tense,
411
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,920
just-- just trying to fight
to get to that finish line.
412
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[commentator] The start vital, and Peacock
gets a good one. He's ahead of Pistorius.
413
00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:58,960
Browne tries to go with him!
Peacock's in front!
414
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,880
Pistorius starting to recover.
415
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,920
Peacock takes the gold!
416
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,280
-[triumphant music playing]
-[crowd cheering]
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[man shouting and cheering]
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[Jonnie Peacock]
And I remember crossing the line
419
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and thinking,
"Oh, my God, I've just won."
420
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,560
[triumphant music playing]
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00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,560
Then I finally see my name come up first,
and I couldn't believe it.
422
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,360
[reporter] I've heard this described
423
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,520
as the biggest night of sport
in Paralympic history.
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-Do you think that's right, Oscar?
-No doubt.
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Shows how the sport has grown.
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[crowd cheering]
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[woman] Jonnie Peacock was running,
428
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,360
and there were 80,000 people
in the Olympic Stadium.
429
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,160
And they weren't shouting
and clapping and cheering
430
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,600
because they were seeing disabled people.
431
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:13,520
They were shouting because they were
seeing a great sporting event.
432
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:20,280
And that just brought it home to me,
what the Paralympics mean.
433
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,920
My father did start something
quite amazing.
434
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,160
And I am very, very proud of him.
435
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,440
He was a neurosurgeon and neurologist,
436
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:49,240
and he was reckoned to be
the next top man in Germany.
437
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,440
He was in his 30s,
building up his career
438
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,760
and bringing two children into the world.
439
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,560
Suddenly, it was all taken away.
440
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,920
[crowd shouting]
441
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,520
[reporter] Berlin's great day dawns
with the arrival of the Olympic flame
442
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,920
at the end of its 2,000 mile journey
from Greece.
443
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,760
[speaking German]
444
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,280
[woman in English]
Hitler came to power,
445
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,880
and he immediately said
all Jewish academics
446
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,400
and teachers and scientists and doctors
447
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:36,120
could no longer work
in normal hospitals or universities.
448
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,080
So he lost his job, just like that,
because he was a Jew.
449
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,000
He came to Breslau and became
head of the Jewish hospital there,
450
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,840
'cause he was allowed to work
in a Jewish hospital.
451
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:59,040
[Dr. Guttmann] On the 9th of November,
I took my car and went to the synagogue.
452
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:04,000
And there, the whole thing was surrounded
by hundreds of people, burning,
453
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,520
and SS men playing football
with prayer books.
454
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,440
I stood there and realized
that my tears were running down.
455
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:21,320
But I became quite determined
to help persecuted people.
456
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,960
[woman] Kristallnacht,
where a lot of Jews were beaten up,
457
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,640
about 60 men came to the hospital,
458
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,840
and my father had said,
"You must admit everybody who comes in."
459
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:35,960
[Dr. Guttmann] In my position,
I could help people.
460
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,160
Whether Christian or Jewish,
it didn't matter.
461
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,360
Help them to disappear
under the nose of the Gestapo.
462
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,440
[Eva Loeffler] And the next day,
the Gestapo called and said,
463
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,160
"You must come
to the hospital immediately."
464
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,680
And my mother said to my father,
"Take your boots and your overcoat,"
465
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,800
because she thought he would be taken
to the concentration camp.
466
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,800
[Dr. Guttmann] I went to the hospital
467
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,960
and there were three SS officers
sitting there.
468
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,480
"Sixty-four people were admitted.
How can you explain this?"
469
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,840
I discussed every case,
470
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,280
and of course I invented
all sorts of the diagnoses, you see.
471
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:20,880
Out of the 64 people, I saved 60.
472
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,480
[Eva Loeffler]
I remember crossing into France
473
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,080
and my mother crying,
474
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,960
and that made a big impression on me.
475
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:39,680
She was leaving her family
and she knew what might happen.
476
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,960
It was raining when we got to England.
477
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,800
It was all new
and the language was different.
478
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,680
I became quite frightened.
479
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,440
There was a big queue of refugees coming,
'cause we were refugees.
480
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,720
[Dr. Guttmann]
In came the immigration officer and said,
481
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,080
"Who are the little children
in the background?"
482
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,320
And my wife said, "Ours."
483
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,920
"Will you please come first?
Children shouldn't stay in a draft."
484
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,560
Now this knocked us both out for six.
485
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,720
After all we had been through in Germany,
486
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,720
that simple man saying,
"Children shouldn't stay in a draft."
487
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,840
Then my confidence in humanity
came up like this, [snaps fingers]
488
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,760
and it has never wavered.
489
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,640
[audience applauding]
490
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,480
[reporter] We'll find out which city
will follow London
491
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,200
to stage the 2016 Games.
492
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,960
I would like to thank
the four candidate cities
493
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,720
for their excellent bids.
494
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,480
[man] Madrid! Madrid!
495
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,280
[crowd cheering]
496
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,760
[indistinct chatter]
497
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,320
-Rio de Janeiro!
-[man] Brazil!
498
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,960
There can, however, only be one winner.
499
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,440
Here we go.
500
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,760
I have the honor to announce
501
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:17,200
that the games of the 31st Olympiad
are awarded to the city of...
502
00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:22,440
Rio de Janeiro.
503
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,360
[crowd cheering]
504
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,160
[crowd groaning]
505
00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:34,120
[announcer] Wait a minute.
506
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,640
Chicago is out?
507
00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:39,480
[crowd cheering]
508
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,320
It was magical, you know.
It was like going to the nirvana.
509
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,360
We were just shouting
and hugging each other and crying.
510
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,440
Then you realize you are hugging Pele.
511
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,560
Well, we were in a different dimension.
512
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,840
When we bid for the Olympics
and the Paralympics,
513
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,840
there was this excitement
about the Paralympic Games
514
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,800
and we were, I would say,
a strong element of the bid.
515
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,840
And I was born in Rio,
so to me it was a dream come true.
516
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,520
Andrew absolutely transformed Brazil
as a major Paralympic nation.
517
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,680
[Andrew Parsons]
I had this dream of making
518
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,160
the Brazilian Paralympic Committee
519
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:23,240
one of the most important
sport organizations in my own country.
520
00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:27,560
[reporter] Rio de Janeiro is to be
the first Latin-American city
521
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,000
to host the Olympic Games.
522
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:34,040
After London,
the expectations of the world, the media,
523
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,880
the sponsors, they were very high.
524
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,280
We couldn't fail.
525
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,960
[choral music playing]
526
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,160
[Bebe Vio] Rio de Janeiro,
I was dreaming about it.
527
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,840
I realized that my dream
could be possible.
528
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,640
I completely fell in love with fencing
when I was five years old.
529
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:03,520
I think I was in the national rankings
for, like, six years.
530
00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:05,880
I was quite good.
531
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,280
When I was 11 years old, I was at the gym,
a fencing gym, of course.
532
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,040
I just felt like a really,
really bad headache.
533
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,480
I went home,
and I had this very big bruise on my head.
534
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,240
So my mum asked me,
"Did you fence without the mask?"
535
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,360
And I was like, "Mum, of course I didn't,"
536
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,640
because I was kind of crazy
when I was young.
537
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:32,840
I was so lucky because 97%
of people die in the first two hours.
538
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,640
The name of the disease
in general is meningitis.
539
00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:38,680
"Meningites"? Meningitis.
540
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,560
[dramatic music playing]
541
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,880
I don't remember from then on,
because I was in a coma.
542
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,280
It's like you implode from the inside.
543
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,760
A part of my body was trying to kill me.
544
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,640
It was like a kind of match.
545
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,240
I have to fence to win against my disease.
546
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,600
The really difficult thing was not for me.
It was for my parents, for my family.
547
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,120
Every night they went home
548
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,280
because they couldn't stay
at the hospital with me.
549
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,760
They'd just say, "Bye."
550
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,960
You don't know if it's like "arrivederci."
551
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,000
Like, you know, in Italy we say,
"See you soon,"
552
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:23,600
or it's like, "Bye," and that's it.
553
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,600
And then, a few days after,
they amputated my arms.
554
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,040
They told me that, with the amputation
of the arm, the disease is finished.
555
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,960
Everything is okay, so don't worry.
556
00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:41,920
But then the disease appeared again.
557
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,560
"What do you wanna do?
We can amputate her legs."
558
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,680
My parents were so scared,
and I took the decision for them.
559
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,320
If there is 1% of possibility to live,
let's amputate the legs.
560
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,440
How can you live a life
without legs and arms?
561
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,600
Before my disease,
we have not seen someone without legs,
562
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,640
so someone with a wheelchair.
For me, a wheelchair was for old people.
563
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,920
I was 11 years old.
I was good at school. I was an athlete.
564
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,400
Why does this disease
have to happen to me?
565
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,400
There are a lot of bad guys in prison.
566
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,680
Give them this--
this really bad situation.
567
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,360
I had never done something
really bad in my life. Why to me?
568
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,040
But then,
if you go ahead thinking every day,
569
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,120
"Why to me?" you will never go anywhere.
570
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,840
There's not really an answer,
there's no reason, there's no nothing.
571
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,360
So, it just happened, you know.
Shit happens.
572
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:41,840
[laughing]
573
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,080
[Bebe Vio and man laughing]
574
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,560
[Bebe Vio] The funny thing is
that you are born again.
575
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,080
You just need to learn,
step-by-step, everything.
576
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,280
Walking, eating, brushing your teeth,
everything is a new thing,
577
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,080
because you forgot every movement.
578
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,800
-[indistinct chatter]
-[water gushing]
579
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,600
[man speaking Italian]
580
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,800
[laughter]
581
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,640
[Bebe Vio] The most important thing
was to go back to fencing.
582
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,280
I just need to smell my old smell
of the fencing gym.
583
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,200
I love the fragrance, you know? [chuckles]
584
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,240
It's a kind of perfume and you just
love it, even if it's a bad, bad smell.
585
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,040
So, I went there and I saw this
wheelchair fencing, I was like,
586
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,160
"Guys, what is this? That's not fencing."
587
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:42,880
"This is something for disabled.
I don't wanna do something for disabled."
588
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,160
My father used the tape
to put the foil on my hand,
589
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,280
and then I began fencing
and just fell in love again.
590
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,640
Your mind has to be clear
and prepared for everything.
591
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,160
The thing that I really love
is that you can't be scared
592
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,280
in order to win, and I love winning.
593
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,240
[crowd cheering]
594
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,080
You see the world in another way
when you have the mask on.
595
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,240
[soprano singing]
596
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,960
My favorite world is with the mask on.
597
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:39,000
[singing continues]
598
00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:10,800
[metal clashing]
599
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:24,120
I was lucky to live my favorite moment
in my life two times.
600
00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:41,640
When I was younger,
my old dream was the Olympic Games.
601
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,240
With the disease and all,
I completely forgot about it.
602
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,160
But then, when I went back to fencing,
603
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:48,720
I realized that maybe my dream
was not trashed.
604
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,880
[Eva Loeffler] My father said,
"I dream of the time
605
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,120
when disabled people will take part
in the Olympic Games."
606
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,200
Everybody thought, "What a crazy idea."
607
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,640
[bombs booming]
608
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,920
[machine gun firing]
609
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:17,280
In 1944, if you had a spinal cord injury,
you didn't have much chance.
610
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,480
[Phillip Craven] They were brought back
to Britain in open-top coffins.
611
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,960
The medical fraternity said,
"Well, they're no good anymore."
612
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,200
They couldn't go back and fight,
so pump them up with morphine,
613
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,560
then they die of infection
within six months.
614
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,040
[Eva Loeffler] When they decided to open
the Spinal Injuries Centre
615
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,960
at Stoke Mandeville,
nobody wanted to do it,
616
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,200
because the patients died.
617
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:54,760
When they offered the job to my father,
he had all sorts of ideas how to help.
618
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:55,920
He jumped at it.
619
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:12,080
And he did this extraordinary treatment
of turning them every two hours,
620
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:16,480
and really, that stopped the bed sores,
and they lived.
621
00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:19,360
And because he didn't have any staff,
622
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,960
he stayed at the hospital and helped
turn the patients every two hours.
623
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,000
He was never at home. [chuckles]
624
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,720
I knew that he was being
a very good doctor
625
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,640
and doing something very special.
626
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:37,760
So, I'd have been dead,
if this guy hadn't come along.
627
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,600
[Dr. Guttman]
Paraplegia is not the end of the way.
628
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,080
It is the beginning of a new life.
629
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:51,080
Sir Ludwig, his main goal,
which was so simple,
630
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,800
was to ensure
that those individuals became taxpayers.
631
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,240
[Andrew Parsons]
And this means to be a citizen.
632
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,840
It's not only about surviving.
633
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:06,240
It's about being a useful human being,
be your friend, a member of your family,
634
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:10,240
be your husband, your wife, someone,
you know, someone like everyone else.
635
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,520
[Dr. Guttman] It occurred to me
that it would have been a serious omission
636
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:21,880
not to include sport in the rehabilitation
of handicapped people.
637
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:29,000
That was probably one of the best thoughts
I have ever had as a medical man.
638
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,560
[Duke of Sussex] The hook is the sport.
There isn't anything else in the world
639
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,080
that can bring you back
from the darkest places than sport.
640
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:45,120
[Dr. Guttman] When I saw how sport
is accepted by the paralyzed,
641
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,600
it was logical to start a sports movement.
642
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:57,120
We had our first competition between
paralyzed ex-servicemen, 16 only,
643
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:02,880
on the very day, of 29th July, 1948,
644
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,720
when the Olympic Games
were opened in London.
645
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,120
[crowd cheering]
646
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:13,320
[blows whistle]
647
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,680
[Eva Loeffler] They trained all the time
648
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,760
to get fitter,
to get better, to be faster.
649
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,080
The movement just took off.
650
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:23,560
[cheering]
651
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,720
[reporter 1] 18 countries make a record
entry for the International Para...
652
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,000
[reporter 2] Twenty-two countries
were represented at this year's...
653
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,920
[reporter 3] Twenty-six countries
took part in the Stoke Mandeville Games.
654
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,280
It just grew like topsy, really.
655
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,680
Rome was the first time
they managed to have Paralympic Games.
656
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,000
A lot of people thought it was
something to do with being paralyzed,
657
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:54,600
but Paralympic was parallel
to the Olympic.
658
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,120
[Andrew Parsons]
I think Guttmann was really smart
659
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,560
in realizing sport movement
660
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:08,560
will be a very important tool
for challenging perceptions worldwide.
661
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,720
-[triumphant orchestral music playing]
-[crowd clapping rhythmically]
662
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,400
[Eva Loeffler]
When it went to China, to Beijing,
663
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,720
that was another country
where disabled people were never seen.
664
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,160
They were kept hidden away.
665
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:35,680
[woman in Mandarin]
As I was disabled at a very young age,
666
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,720
my family never had
high expectations for me.
667
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,680
They just wondered what I would do
when I grew up,
668
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,200
how would I support myself?
669
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,320
[trainer speaking Mandarin]
670
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,600
-[woman grunts]
-[trainer speaking Mandarin]
671
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,040
[spectators applauding]
672
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,680
[announcer speaking Mandarin]
673
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,560
The China Disabled Persons' Federation
was recruiting athletes
674
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,360
for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
675
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,440
They came to my home and asked me
if I was interested in sports.
676
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:19,520
I was born to a family that was not rich.
677
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,600
They had opened a door for me.
678
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:29,040
[in English] Beijing, we have
the largest country in the world...
679
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,440
[announcer] People's Republic of China.
680
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,760
[crowd cheering loudly]
681
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,320
[Xavi Gonzalez]
...making an absolute commitment
682
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,760
to make the Paralympics
the best that they could be
683
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:44,000
and use it to transform the lives
of people with a disability.
684
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,960
[announcer 1 speaking Mandarin]
685
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,560
[announcer 2 in English] Here we go,
going head-to-head, the gold medal match.
686
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,840
Number three, Ryley Batt.
687
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,720
[announcer 1 speaking Mandarin]
688
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:02,320
I think China surprised everyone. They did
a really good job of the Paralympics.
689
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,240
We got to play in the final there
against the United States of America
690
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,880
and there would have been
8,000-plus spectators in that final.
691
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,720
[announcer speaking Mandarin]
692
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,840
[Ryley Batt] The first time I did hear
about the Paralympics,
693
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,440
I didn't really want
to watch people in wheelchairs.
694
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:17,480
They're my kryptonite.
695
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,920
I didn't want to get in a wheelchair.
Didn't want anything to do with it.
696
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,920
-[crowd chanting] USA!
-[announcer speaking Mandarin]
697
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:25,880
[video interference]
698
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:28,960
[babbling]
699
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,520
[Ryley Batt] When I was in Mum's tummy,
she got ultrasounds done.
700
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,000
Nothing showed up.
No disabilities showed up.
701
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,160
So when I entered the world,
it was a huge shock for my family...
702
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:45,480
that I was missing legs
and missing a few fingers on each hand.
703
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,800
You know, I've heard stories that my nan,
who was the sweetest old thing,
704
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:52,800
didn't even know how to hold me.
705
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,000
She didn't know how to accept me,
706
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:58,880
and, you know,
my mum and nan cried for many weeks,
707
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,400
not knowing what to do with me
and what I was gonna be.
708
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,600
[indistinct chatter]
709
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,080
-Say, "G'day, camera."
-Bike!
710
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,040
-Yeah. Yeah, bike. He says, "Bike."
-[woman] Bike. [chuckles]
711
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:11,920
[Ryley Batt] I don't know
what it was about my pop.
712
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,600
He just wouldn't take no for an answer.
713
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,000
-Now wave to Mummy.
-[bike engine roars]
714
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,480
-Give Mummy a wave.
-[Ryley Batt] He bought me a motorbike
715
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,000
when I was three and a half
or four years old,
716
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,520
and my parents looked at him and said,
"Why are you buying him this?"
717
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,080
"How's he going to ride it?"
718
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,600
[Ryley Batt's pop] That's a great bike
you've got there, Ryley.
719
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,760
Right, away you go, Ryley.
720
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,520
The day I got on that quad bike
was the best day of my life,
721
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:36,600
and I still do have memories of that day.
722
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,240
He just made me feel like a normal boy.
723
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:42,520
[Ryley Batt's pop] Look at that boy go.
724
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,800
[Ryley Batt]
I don't remember once thinking that,
725
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,320
"Oh, poor me, I'm disabled."
726
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,200
I didn't see myself as disabled
or see myself that I had a disability.
727
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,280
[Ryley Batt vocalizes]
728
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,720
-[coughing]
-[Ryley Batt's dad] You're like a monkey.
729
00:49:59,960 --> 00:50:02,000
[Ryley Batt] My mode of transport
was a skateboard at the time.
730
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,640
I wanted to fit in with my friends
and be cool.
731
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:08,280
I was in school, and I was away
when we had to tick all the boxes,
732
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,120
what sport we wanted to play.
I got stuck with wheelchair rugby. Um...
733
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:15,520
I did want to jump in that chair,
but then I was too embarrassed to do it.
734
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,600
Another week went on,
and I went for a swim.
735
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,720
Came back a few hours later,
my skateboard had been stolen.
736
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,920
Don't know what clicked in my head,
but I went,
737
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,080
"Maybe I should give this
wheelchair rugby a go."
738
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,440
I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie.
739
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,080
When you're hitting someone head-on,
it's like a small car crash.
740
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,560
[crashing]
741
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,360
[reporter] It's hard, fast
and not for the faint-hearted.
742
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:51,560
It's no surprise that wheelchair rugby
is also known as murderball.
743
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:53,960
-[crashing]
-[spectators] Ooh!
744
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,400
Wheelchair rugby suits me to a T,
but in saying that,
745
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:01,880
my teenage years were probably
my hardest times in my life.
746
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,080
I was fairly negative about who I was.
747
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,240
I didn't really want to go out into public
748
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,880
and I worried
what people thought of me every day.
749
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,400
Probably eating too much
and started putting on weight.
750
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,200
-[interviewer] Do you have a girlfriend?
-No, I don't at the moment. [chuckles]
751
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,840
Just go out to parties
and get different chicks, sometimes, so...
752
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,680
-[interviewer] Yeah?
- Not often, yeah.
753
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,320
-[laughing] Ryley, you talking it up?
-[chuckles] Nah.
754
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:29,960
[both laughing]
755
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:31,960
[crowd cheering]
756
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:36,120
Beijing 2008, I was definitely playing
on natural talent.
757
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,760
I was nowhere near as fit
as I should have been.
758
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:48,600
We lost that final, and you feel like
you've let another 11 players down.
759
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,480
[team cheering]
760
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,200
[indistinct announcements]
761
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:01,400
Didn't like my disability,
and it was a hard time.
762
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:08,480
[announcer] Paralympic champion,
the United States of America.
763
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,840
[crowd cheering]
764
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:19,720
[Zhe in Mandarin]
After the 2008 Beijing Paralympics,
765
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:26,600
people all over the country changed
their attitude towards the disabled.
766
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:29,600
-[trainer speaking Mandarin]
-[crowd cheering]
767
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:34,480
My life, and my family’s,
768
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:38,920
improved a lot after that.
769
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,760
[crowd cheering]
770
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:43,800
[Phillip Craven in English]
Before the Paralympics, China had
771
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,320
a very low impression
of people with an impairment.
772
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,120
But that's been the same
in every country of the world.
773
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:02,240
It kind of happens even here,
even in the UK, um,
774
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,120
you know, maybe a bit more subtly.
775
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,880
[Jean-Baptiste Alaize in French]
I was adopted in France.
776
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,040
It was as if I had landed on a new planet.
777
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,480
I was often told I was good for nothing.
778
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,360
I was just a dirty cripple...
779
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,040
uh, a negro...
780
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,360
It's...
781
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:25,800
[crying]
782
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:29,160
It's, um...
783
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,560
I was little. I didn't really understand
what was going on.
784
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:35,920
But when I told my parents about it...
785
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,440
I often struggle to understand
786
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,760
why people are so harsh
with the differences of others.
787
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:48,800
[Ellie Cole in English]
Growing up in Australia,
788
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,080
I was like a prime candidate for bullying.
789
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:52,720
There was this kid,
790
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,880
and he saw that I had one leg,
and he kept calling me "pirate,"
791
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:57,320
and I was just like...
792
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:58,440
[chuckling]
793
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:00,520
The next time he called me pirate,
I'd had enough,
794
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:01,880
so I took my prosthetic off
795
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,320
and I threw it across the room
like a javelin,
796
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,640
and, um, it hit him.
797
00:54:07,720 --> 00:54:10,680
That was my first day of high school.
I never got bullied again.
798
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:17,760
[Phillip Craven]
My heart's still functioning.
799
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,240
My brain's still functioning.
800
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,640
And I'm here, and don't hold me back,
'cause I won't allow it.
801
00:54:22,720 --> 00:54:25,360
Give us a chance and we'll show you
what we can do.
802
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,680
And if not, we'll make our own chances.
803
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,040
[birds tweeting]
804
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,120
[man]
I come from a rural area,
805
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,680
and I understand when things are hidden.
806
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:48,760
It was very weird.
807
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,040
Usually back in the rural areas,
808
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,120
they would take the children
and they would put them away,
809
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:01,360
because the family thinks it's a curse
or something, to have a disabled child.
810
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,360
There's some people
that don't want to see them.
811
00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:14,560
[cheetah purring]
812
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:29,080
From the age of one to ten,
I was stuck in a wheelchair.
813
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,280
You don't see what other people see.
814
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,680
It's like you don't see your future.
815
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:39,080
The charity, a non-profit organization
816
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,240
that helped me, you know, with my legs.
817
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,160
[young Ntando Mahlangu] Hold here.
This one or this one?
818
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:46,520
[man] Okay, turn it.
819
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,080
I got my first pair of blades,
the Cheetah blade.
820
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,160
It changed my life in many ways, you know.
821
00:55:54,720 --> 00:55:56,720
Now I could come to people,
822
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,760
look them directly in the eye
and greet them,
823
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:01,720
instead of looking at their stomach.
824
00:56:02,720 --> 00:56:05,800
You feel the same level.
825
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:19,960
The moment I started moving around,
I started loving that feeling.
826
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:21,360
[woman] Well done!
827
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,520
[Ntando Mahlangu] People always ask me,
"Why can't you stand still?"
828
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,920
I don't think I want to stand still.
I always want to move.
829
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:48,160
Every time when I get to run,
it brings laughter to me.
830
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,240
There's nothing that can bother me.
831
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,880
The only thing that I can hear
is the wind blowing through my ears.
832
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,960
[dramatic music playing]
833
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,480
I started thinking, "I want to do things."
834
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,080
"I want to be better.
I want to change the world."
835
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,440
My coach said to me,
"I see talent in you."
836
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:29,240
"We are going to Rio."
837
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:44,280
[Xavi Gonzalez] This had been
the first time that we had
838
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:45,920
two very successful Games:
839
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,960
Beijing and London.
840
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,440
So expectations for Rio were immense.
841
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:55,160
[Andrew Parsons] In terms of organization,
I think we are in the final adjustments.
842
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,560
You know, the construction part
is underway, is on schedule.
843
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,960
We thought,
"Wow, man, this is going to be amazing."
844
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:09,200
"We're really going to deliver
something absolutely special."
845
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:18,080
But then we started to see
a few bumps in the journey.
846
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:24,200
[in Portuguese] Here we will hold
the best Paralympic Games in history,
847
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,600
not in terms of organization,
but in human warmth...
848
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,440
[Andrew Parsons in English] The name of
the committee was to be announced.
849
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,000
The official name
850
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:38,080
was Rio 2016 Organizing Committee
for the Olympic Games.
851
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:40,800
Not for the Olympic and Paralympic.
852
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:44,920
So that left a question mark in my mind.
853
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,600
Why not have Paralympic
as part of the official name?
854
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,800
I don't know, some of the most senior
leaders there, they couldn't care less.
855
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,280
If you look at the history
of the Paralympic movement,
856
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:02,240
there were times when our athletes
were not treated with the proper dignity
857
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:03,680
and the proper respect.
858
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,720
In Atlanta, it was just a disaster.
859
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:09,000
[starting pistol fires]
860
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:11,280
[Xavi Gonzalez]
The Olympic Organizing Committee
861
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,880
decided not to organize the Paralympics.
862
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,200
[Andrew Parsons]
Athens, if you see the pictures,
863
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,760
the stands,
they were not full of spectators.
864
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:22,640
The promotion, they had many issues.
865
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:24,240
[muttering]
866
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,480
I always say,
"If it's easy, it's not Paralympic."
867
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,400
[reporter 1] Russia has refused to host
the disabled Olympics this year.
868
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,520
[reporter 2]
Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann is upset
869
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,320
at the Russians' decision
to keep the disabled out.
870
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:41,440
[Dr. Guttman] I felt rather bitter.
871
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:46,120
[presenter] I understand that the Soviets
don't admit to having disabled people,
872
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,600
and that was one of the reasons
they said you couldn't go.
873
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:52,800
They are behind,
at least 20 years behind us.
874
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,080
[reporter] When the Soviet Union
declined to stage
875
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,000
the Olympic Games for the handicapped,
876
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:03,160
a tradition which began in Rome
in 1960 was broken.
877
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:08,240
But the Netherlands ensured
the Games would take place.
878
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:17,200
When I arrived in Arnhem,
I wasn't aware, really,
879
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:22,320
that Sir Ludwig died
earlier that year in 1980.
880
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,160
[Eva Loeffler] Well, I think
he was still fighting, to the very end.
881
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:37,240
I mean, he was working away.
882
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,640
He still turned the lights off
every evening,
883
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:44,040
being the last person to leave,
884
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:48,080
and he was in full flight again
with his work.
885
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:52,280
So, it was a good time for him to go.
886
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:59,840
I went to Arnhem,
and... it-- it was very poignant.
887
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:06,440
The first thing which happened was,
there was a minute's silence... for him.
888
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:19,440
And hearing the minute's silence
of all these people thinking about...
889
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:24,400
my dad was very emotional for me.
890
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:41,040
And there was a chap next to me
with very severe cerebral palsy.
891
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,840
He couldn't speak,
but he had a board in front of him,
892
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:49,240
and he pointed to various letters
and said, "Why are you here?"
893
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:54,040
And I said,
"Because Ludwig Guttmann is my father."
894
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:59,920
And he spelled out, with great difficulty,
"He is a great man."
895
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:08,960
But the Games were a great success.
896
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:14,080
They were there because the Russians said
they hadn't got any disabled.
897
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:20,000
But now, I think they have quite a few.
[chuckling]
898
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:24,040
So, you've won 17 Paralympic medals,
including seven gold.
899
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,600
You hold the world record
in every track event.
900
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:31,240
Uh, 100 meter, 400 meter, 800 meter,
1,500 meter, 5,000 meter.
901
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:34,560
You're the first person ever to win
all four of the world's major marathons
902
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,080
in one year, and you've done that
three years in a row.
903
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:39,560
[audience cheering and applauding]
904
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:41,040
-Amazing.
-Thank you.
905
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,480
So tell everybody where you're from,
and your story,
906
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:45,440
'cause it's incredible.
Where were you born?
907
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,680
I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
908
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:55,440
[woman] Being born
with a disability in Russia in the '80s,
909
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,120
it was a struggle.
910
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,600
My birth mom could not
take care of me financially.
911
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,840
I was put into Orphanage Number 13.
912
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:12,640
There's no fancy name.
It's just Orphanage Number 13.
913
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:15,240
It was just, like, a simple life.
914
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,880
I didn't have a wheelchair.
915
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:21,840
The only way to get around
was that I scooted around the floor,
916
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,520
using my hands as my legs.
917
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:28,000
I was the rebel there,
and I was a very stubborn child.
918
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:32,840
I was never adopted until that sixth year
when my mom walked in.
919
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:34,800
I owe her my life.
920
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,800
Before I knew it,
I was on a plane to America.
921
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:45,360
So I didn't know the outside world.
922
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,840
My mom said that I was screaming,
because it was the unknown,
923
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:54,200
I was leaving something
that I'd known for so long, and then
924
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:59,160
entering a new world that I didn't know
or speak the language.
925
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,440
-[baby crying]
-[young Tatyana McFadden giggling]
926
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:14,480
Hi, there, hello!
927
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:17,120
-[woman] How old are you?
-Six years old.
928
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:18,680
[giggling]
929
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,520
[indistinct chatter]
930
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:27,200
[Tatyana McFadden] Coming to the US,
my legs were atrophied behind my back,
931
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:31,200
so I think I had ten surgeries
just to, like, straighten out my legs.
932
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:37,120
The doctors, they didn't really expect
a life for me.
933
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:41,760
I wouldn't live very long,
934
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:44,800
that I wouldn't hold a job.
935
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,560
They thought very narrow.
936
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:54,080
I think the moment I sat
in that racing chair,
937
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:55,040
[yelling]
938
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,680
I just-- I don't know,
I knew it was for me.
939
01:04:57,760 --> 01:04:58,600
Bye.
940
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,200
[Tatyana McFadden] It was something
like I'd never felt before...
941
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:03,520
[woman] Tatyana!
942
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:07,320
[Tatyana McFadden] ...freedom
and that I could go really fast.
943
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:14,160
I was so in the zone,
I didn't really care about anything else.
944
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,280
Nothing was wrong in the world.
945
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:21,840
It just felt endless, you know.
I could just go forever.
946
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,720
I train 120 miles per week.
947
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:36,920
Our training is almost identical
to an able-bodied runner.
948
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:40,920
Watch this.
949
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:46,720
People believe that walking on my hands
for the first six years
950
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:50,440
built the muscle mass
in my arms and my back.
951
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:58,280
I remember in the beginning
of the school year,
952
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,160
we were supposed to write down
academic goals.
953
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,160
My last goal I wrote down was,
954
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:06,120
"Going to be in the Olympics
in Athens in 2004."
955
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:07,920
[crowd applauding]
956
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,080
[announcer] Tatyana McFadden.
957
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:13,160
[crowd cheering]
958
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:14,400
[starting pistol fires]
959
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,160
[woman] Come on, Tatyana!
960
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,000
[crowd cheering]
961
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:28,080
[Tatyana McFadden] No one thought
I would make the team.
962
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:29,480
No one thought I would medal.
963
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,440
[chuckling]
964
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,280
When I came back from the Games,
965
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:45,440
people didn't really know
that the Paralympics happened.
966
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:53,520
I wanted to join
the high school track team,
967
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:59,640
but I didn't have the right
to run alongside of other runners,
968
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:03,520
when I was the only
female wheelchair racer out there.
969
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:09,160
I didn't understand why
I was being discriminated against.
970
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:13,280
Even coaches said I should
have a club of my own kind
971
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:17,800
and that I really don't belong here.
It was hurtful.
972
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:22,680
And I thought,
"Okay, we're going to fight this."
973
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,960
So, we sued for no damages, so no money.
974
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:34,640
We sued for the right
for people with disabilities
975
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:36,720
to participate in high school sports.
976
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:42,640
[reporter 1]
Disabilities are now being granted
977
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:44,680
equal access to school sports programs.
978
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,120
That mandate comes
from the Obama administration.
979
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:50,960
[Tatyana McFadden]
I could run alongside of other runners.
980
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:55,080
[reporter 2] For the first time
in history, students with disabilities
981
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:58,720
will now be included on sports teams
at their local school.
982
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:04,800
[Tatyana McFadden] It was a hard thing
to go through, but the law became federal,
983
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,880
called the Sports and Fitness Equity Law.
984
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:11,320
Some people call it Tatyana's Law.
985
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:23,640
When I found out that the Games were
finally going to be happening in Russia,
986
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,920
how cool would it be to do something?
987
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,200
[snow crunching]
988
01:08:32,480 --> 01:08:35,960
[Andrew Parsons] Many people are surprised
we have the Paralympic Winter Games.
989
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:43,080
We have blind athletes,
100 kilometers per hour, downhill...
990
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:45,680
-[panting]
-[indistinct chatter]
991
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:49,200
...trusting in their guide,
through a radio system, to say,
992
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:50,320
"Left, right."
993
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:53,040
[commentator] Super-G
for the visually impaired underway.
994
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:56,440
-[rustling]
-[indistinct chatter]
995
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:06,640
[Tatyana McFadden] I don't like
to go down hills fast,
996
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:09,080
so, like downhill skiing
was out of the picture.
997
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,560
I was like,
"Cross-country skiing, perfect."
998
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,280
Training was probably
the hardest thing I've ever done.
999
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:23,480
I was told by other coaches on the team
that I should go back to my summer sport
1000
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:26,120
and focus on training for Rio.
1001
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:31,000
[commentator] Tatyana McFadden,
what an interesting story she is.
1002
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,320
[Tatyana McFadden]
There was nothing greater
1003
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,840
than seeing your family holding
an American flag and a Russian flag,
1004
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:40,160
and kind of being blended together
at that moment.
1005
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:43,360
[commentator]
McFadden still trying to hold them off.
1006
01:09:43,440 --> 01:09:46,200
Here comes Marthinsen down the inside,
closest to the fans.
1007
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:48,040
McFadden trying to hold her off.
1008
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:51,280
And Marthinsen driving the shoulders
into the poles.
1009
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:53,720
What a great finish, stroke for stroke.
1010
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:57,960
I think Marthinsen got there
by 0.1 from McFadden.
1011
01:09:58,040 --> 01:09:59,520
What a finish.
1012
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:06,760
Winning a silver medal
and having my birth mom at the competition
1013
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,120
[chuckles]
was definitely the cherry on top.
1014
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:12,920
[indistinct chatter]
1015
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,040
Having that reunion and seeing her,
I was so excited.
1016
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:18,280
You could just see the relief on her face.
1017
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:23,480
She lived such a hard life,
always worrying how I'm doing every day.
1018
01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:28,960
I think when she saw me, it felt like
she took 20 years off her life.
1019
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:49,680
[reporter] The Rio Olympics
are just weeks away.
1020
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,880
[Ntando Mahlangu]
I'm not promising everything, you know,
1021
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:54,480
I'm so young, there's no disadvantage.
1022
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:58,360
You just have to do your best
and everything shall come to you, yeah.
1023
01:10:58,440 --> 01:11:02,120
As a 14-year-old boy, I'm going to Rio.
Whoop-whoop!
1024
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:05,760
[Matt Stutzman]
I was just so excited that I made it.
1025
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,520
I spent four years training for Rio.
1026
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:10,400
[woman] Yeah!
1027
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:12,480
Four years. [chuckles]
1028
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,040
[Ryley Batt] You do have to sacrifice
a lot in life:
1029
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:18,640
friends' buck's parties, weddings,
birthdays, all those kind of things.
1030
01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:22,280
[Bebe Vio] Maybe this will be
my only one Paralympic Games.
1031
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:24,280
In five years, everything can change.
1032
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:29,160
[Andrew Parsons] A few weeks prior
to the opening of the Olympic Games,
1033
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:32,960
I had a call
from the Organizing Committee,
1034
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:36,800
I said, "What's it about?" They said, "No,
when you come here, we talk about it."
1035
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:38,200
And then I said, "Mmm..."
1036
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:44,760
That July 18th
was an absolute key date.
1037
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:47,320
There were three of us in there,
in our side.
1038
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:51,800
And basically what they said was,
"It's about money."
1039
01:11:52,480 --> 01:11:54,760
"The Paralympics
would be seriously affected."
1040
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,600
"To be honest,
we don't know what would be the level
1041
01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:00,120
that we would deliver the Paralympics."
1042
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:03,800
"We may not deliver the Paralympics."
1043
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:09,640
That was the five longest minutes
of my life.
1044
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,680
Fucking hell. [inhales]
There was no money.
1045
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:14,840
What the hell? What is going on here?
1046
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:17,120
Everybody knows you need money
to run the Games.
1047
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,040
They are not telling you,
"We can do this, or we can do that."
1048
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,280
They are telling you,
"We cannot organize the Games."
1049
01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:25,280
We were in shock.
1050
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:27,480
I knew Xavi by more than ten years.
1051
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:30,080
It was the first time ever
that I didn't see him react.
1052
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:34,800
I couldn't, at that moment,
see how we could fix it...
1053
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:39,320
And that was scary.
1054
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:42,800
And then, all of them left the room.
1055
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:47,120
And I think we were there
for five or ten minutes,
1056
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:51,840
silent, not knowing what to say
and where to start.
1057
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:59,920
[reporter] Athletes' chances of travelling
to next month's Paralympics
1058
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:01,800
are in a precarious state,
1059
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:05,520
according to the president
of the International Paralympic Committee.
1060
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:09,600
Never before, in the 56-year history
of the Paralympic Games,
1061
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,320
have we faced circumstances like this.
1062
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:16,160
There is growing concern tonight
about the Paralympics.
1063
01:13:16,240 --> 01:13:18,040
They said that the Paralympics
is gonna be canceled
1064
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:19,120
because there was no money.
1065
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:23,000
[reporter] The world wouldn't allow this
to happen to the World Cup in Rio,
1066
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:25,640
or the Olympic Games in Rio.
I mean, this is a scandal.
1067
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:29,760
For the entire month before Rio,
I was crying.
1068
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,000
What is going to happen? I was like...
1069
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:36,560
I didn't know what to think at that time,
to be honest. It was sort of overwhelming.
1070
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:38,440
...that started off as a concern,
1071
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,320
but is very quickly
edging towards a crisis.
1072
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:44,200
[reporter 1] How bad is the cash crisis?
1073
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:47,280
In one word,
he said it's absolutely "calamitous."
1074
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:49,400
[reporter 2] It was revealed funding
1075
01:13:49,480 --> 01:13:52,000
that should have
been set aside for the Paralympics in Rio
1076
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:54,600
has already been spent
on the Olympic Games instead.
1077
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,800
Well, I'll be completely honest
with you guys here, I got really angry.
1078
01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:04,280
I thought that was preposterous.
1079
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:07,080
There's a set budget for the Paralympics
and there's a set budget for the Olympics.
1080
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,200
Why are you taking it from our pot?
1081
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:13,200
You just feel like these people don't view
the Paralympics as anything.
1082
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,760
All the National Paralympic Committees
were saying,
1083
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:20,080
"Andrew, what is happening?
Are the Games really happening or not?"
1084
01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:32,040
Paralympians don't have the time
to worry about what doesn't work.
1085
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:35,000
They just maximize what does.
1086
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,760
And I can assure you
that's what we are gonna do here.
1087
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:41,840
[Andrew Parsons] Forget about these guys,
the leadership, because they won't help.
1088
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:45,120
We knew that we couldn't fail
to the athletes.
1089
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:47,160
And the three of us got at it.
1090
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:51,240
You had Xavi reorganizing the resources
that were available.
1091
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:55,240
We took a white board.
Is this measure possible?
1092
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:59,080
No, the contract is signed.
Everything is paid, gone.
1093
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:02,800
Is this measure possible?
Yes, but we need this. Let's go and do it.
1094
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:04,240
[Andrew Parsons]
And Philip was being Philip,
1095
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:07,280
with the media and on the political level.
1096
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:08,680
[Xavi Gonzalez] Andrew Parsons,
1097
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:12,040
his role was to work
with the Brazilian authorities.
1098
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:14,520
I was trying to find money,
so we went to the government.
1099
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:18,520
[reporter] Brazil's first female president
Dilma Rousseff, has been suspended.
1100
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:21,600
The president of Brazil
was impeached at the time.
1101
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:23,760
[people chanting]
1102
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:25,440
It's a recipe for disaster.
1103
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,160
-[people shouting]
-[loud rumbling]
1104
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,400
[Xavi Gonzalez] There was a lot
of operational changes that we did,
1105
01:15:31,480 --> 01:15:34,400
but at the end of the day,
it was all about the money.
1106
01:15:34,480 --> 01:15:38,080
And the money, it'll be next week,
it'll be next week, it'll be next week.
1107
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:41,920
We always talk and exchanged WhatsApps
as things were progressing.
1108
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:46,560
[message tone beeping]
1109
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:50,680
[Phillip Craven]
The efforts to save the Games
1110
01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:53,400
had to happen during the Olympics.
1111
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:59,440
In that period that the Olympics is on,
I was on staging camp in Alabama,
1112
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:01,320
getting ready for our own Games.
1113
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:05,560
I just kept on going with my preparation
and just, fingers crossed,
1114
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:07,520
hoped that it would all work out.
1115
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,240
[Jean-Baptiste Alaize in French]
It was very difficult to focus.
1116
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:16,840
So much stress,
so much mental preparation.
1117
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:19,960
[Matt Stutzman in English]
I basically just didn't watch the news.
1118
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:23,120
I didn't want to know about it.
I was trying to stay in game mode.
1119
01:16:26,480 --> 01:16:28,480
[message tone beeping]
1120
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:34,440
[Philip Craven] We found some money.
1121
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:40,400
Then a federal judge slapped an injunction
on the government
1122
01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:44,680
that it could not transfer
any of this money that they'd promised,
1123
01:16:45,240 --> 01:16:48,960
unless the Organizing Committee
opened its books.
1124
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:51,040
And of course,
they didn't want to do that.
1125
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:53,760
-[waves crashing]
-[birds tweeting]
1126
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:55,520
[thunder rumbling]
1127
01:16:55,600 --> 01:17:00,320
[reporter] With the Games less than three
weeks away, Rio now hangs by a thread.
1128
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:08,040
[message tone beeping]
1129
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,360
[Andrew Parsons] And this is something
I will never forget
1130
01:17:10,440 --> 01:17:12,440
because it was the federal government
1131
01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:17,360
and myself
going to speak to a judge in Rio,
1132
01:17:17,440 --> 01:17:20,520
together with the attorney general
of the city.
1133
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,720
And basically,
I told him-- I told him, "Look,
1134
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:26,800
if we don't get this money,
we will not have the Paralympics."
1135
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:32,120
"And in a country with millions,
24 million persons with disability,
1136
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:33,600
what are we doing with the people?"
1137
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:37,080
"We are telling the disabled people,
'No, look...
1138
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:44,200
...you're not important.
You know, you're not worth the effort.'"
1139
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:47,760
[sirens blaring]
1140
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:50,800
[message tone beeping]
1141
01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:55,080
[message tone beeping]
1142
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:59,800
Inside, I was terrified.
These Games, if they don't happen,
1143
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:03,760
we're done. We're done as a movement,
as an organization.
1144
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:06,320
[cracking]
1145
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:08,320
[Phillip Craven]
We'd have really broken the cycle.
1146
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:11,800
Confidences wouldn't have been there
in the future.
1147
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:17,720
It would be the extinguishing
of that Paralympic flame.
1148
01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:23,640
And Xavi was saying, "We're dead."
1149
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:28,560
[rumbling]
1150
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:30,840
He was really emotional.
1151
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:33,600
[sniffles] It's difficult to explain,
1152
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:40,040
because our belief
that we are part of a much bigger picture.
1153
01:18:42,480 --> 01:18:45,760
Hmm, that this is a movement for good.
1154
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:47,280
[sniffles]
1155
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:04,760
[Ellie Cole]
At the gym, I got a phone call
1156
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,680
from the CEO of Swimming Australia.
1157
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:10,160
I've never felt so much relief in my life.
1158
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:12,360
You know, we're told that the Games
were going to go ahead.
1159
01:19:12,440 --> 01:19:13,840
Of course, we were super excited,
1160
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:17,600
and I was trying to hold all my emotions
inside of my body.
1161
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:20,080
I was, like, super polite like this.
1162
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:23,440
"Okay, I'm ready.
I'm going to do a workout now."
1163
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:25,200
I just sit and cried again. [chuckles]
1164
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,600
Then the good news, we've got the money.
1165
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:30,000
Thank God.
1166
01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:33,880
We've come from nothing
and we can put something on.
1167
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:36,480
These Games are going ahead,
come hell or high water.
1168
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:40,800
[reporter] Years of preparation
has come down to this one journey.
1169
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:46,040
[people applauding]
1170
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:50,080
[Tatyana McFadden] Paralympics,
when it happens every four years,
1171
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:52,680
it is something almost magical.
1172
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:55,200
[people chanting]
1173
01:19:55,840 --> 01:20:00,200
It is a community,
and we do support each other.
1174
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:02,520
-[upbeat music playing]
-[people cheering]
1175
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:06,800
[Matt Stutzman] And the world sees
that connection during those Games.
1176
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:08,640
[people cheering]
1177
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:10,240
And it's a huge, powerful statement,
1178
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:13,720
because there's all these people
who have fought just to get there.
1179
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:15,880
[in Portuguese] Your dream has come true.
1180
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:21,520
You have arrived
at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
1181
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:22,520
[applause]
1182
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:27,640
[man in English]
Over in the distance is the Olympic Park.
1183
01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:31,880
[announcer 1] Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
just moments away.
1184
01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:44,640
[indistinct chatter]
1185
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:47,360
[announcer 2] As we move on
to one of our highlight races,
1186
01:20:47,440 --> 01:20:49,640
the men's 800 meters T54 final.
1187
01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:03,960
[umpire] Thirty-fifteen.
1188
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:09,360
[announcer in English] Ten.
1189
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:12,720
Everything was just... a ghost town.
1190
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:16,120
[Jean-Baptiste Alaize in French]
It was... It was shocking.
1191
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:21,760
[Phillip Craven in English] Bloody hell.
1192
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:25,360
The Organizing Committee
who'd lost our money, if you will,
1193
01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:28,720
or spent it, they hadn't sold any tickets.
1194
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:34,280
Very few tickets sold,
less than in any previous Games.
1195
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:38,480
That was creating a bad environment.
1196
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:41,920
Problems of money were important in this,
but it was something in the behind,
1197
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:45,360
why we are doing this if nobody
is going to come to watch it anyway?
1198
01:21:45,440 --> 01:21:49,000
There's thousands of seats there
that could change those people's lives.
1199
01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:52,280
Because don't forget, yes,
lives are being changed on the track,
1200
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:54,760
but lives are also being changed
in the stands as well.
1201
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:58,000
[crowd applauding and cheering]
1202
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:01,280
[commentator] The final
of the men's 200 meters, T42.
1203
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:05,640
First major championship
for Ntando Mahlangu.
1204
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:08,440
[Ntando Mahlangu] Let's forget
about the stadiums being packed.
1205
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,920
Yes, it plays a big role.
Yes, you want people to come and support.
1206
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:16,600
But I'm representing a billion people.
It's amazing.
1207
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:21,400
It's actually a big thing to represent
where I come from,
1208
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,560
because I will never forget my roots.
1209
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:30,400
[orchestral music playing]
1210
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:51,960
[commentator] So away they go.
Mahlangu is slow out of the blocks.
1211
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:54,920
I'm representing my people.
I'm representing my tribe.
1212
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:57,320
I'm representing the other tribes.
1213
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:05,920
You are running for the taxi drivers
that drive me to town,
1214
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:12,560
people that make sure that we get bread
in the rural areas.
1215
01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:19,920
I'm running for those people
that play a role in my life.
1216
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:29,520
[commentator] Here comes Mahlangu
for South Africa!
1217
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:34,520
[orchestral music swells]
1218
01:23:56,000 --> 01:24:00,360
Whitehead's gonna get the gold!
Mahlangu gets the silver.
1219
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:05,960
Mahlangu's second,
with a new African record.
1220
01:24:09,480 --> 01:24:12,840
Every, every athlete
is dreaming of the gold medal.
1221
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:15,080
[announcer] Ntando Mahlangu.
1222
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:16,680
[crowd cheering]
1223
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:21,320
But then when I got the silver,
it was overwhelming.
1224
01:24:24,480 --> 01:24:25,760
[Andrew Parsons]
I remember some people saying,
1225
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:28,200
"Ah, but the ticket sales are low,"
1226
01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:30,480
and so I said, "Wait.
1227
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:33,360
The people will come.
1228
01:24:33,440 --> 01:24:37,160
The Brazilian people will get behind
these Games. They will not let us down."
1229
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:38,320
[starting buzzer sounds]
1230
01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:44,040
[Xavi Gonzalez] All of a sudden,
that Paralympic spirit happened.
1231
01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:46,440
The athletes took the center stage.
1232
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:50,960
[commentator 1] Ellie Cole has the gold
in Paralympic record time.
1233
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:55,720
[commentator 2]
It'll be an all-American race here.
1234
01:24:56,720 --> 01:25:00,320
And Tatyana McFadden
gets her first gold in Rio!
1235
01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:02,800
[commentator 3]
A brilliant run from Peacock!
1236
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:04,840
[Andrew Parsons]
The ticket sales started picking up.
1237
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,280
[blows repeatedly]
1238
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:11,360
[Phillip Craven] The people didn't know
about the Paralympic tickets,
1239
01:25:11,440 --> 01:25:13,600
and once they did,
"We'll have some of that."
1240
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:21,840
[commentator] It's going to be close
between them. And here comes Van Rhijn!
1241
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:29,840
Van Rhijn might have got there,
and she has!
1242
01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:33,160
[Jonnie Peacock]
The absolute highest number of people
1243
01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:35,040
that went into the Olympic Park
1244
01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:37,640
was during the Paralympic Games,
not the Olympics.
1245
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:49,920
[people whooping and cheering]
1246
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:55,760
It was the sports, the parasports,
that saved the day.
1247
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:58,200
And the spectators, the people from Rio,
1248
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:01,960
the Cariocas came to see it
and they connected.
1249
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:03,760
[crowd cheering]
1250
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:05,480
[Andrew Parsons]
There was a moment in boccia...
1251
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:09,120
In boccia, the athletes
have a severe disability,
1252
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:13,200
so they could stress
if it's too cold, too warm,
1253
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:15,080
the noise, surprise
or something like that,
1254
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:18,760
and the crowd was just, "Ahhh!"
Again, like a football stadium.
1255
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:20,960
[people cheering loudly]
1256
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:27,240
And the officials were a bit concerned.
1257
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:30,720
"Should we tell the crowd?
Should we try to make them less noisy?"
1258
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:35,920
And the athletes said, "We are loving it.
That's what we always want in our life."
1259
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:39,000
[crowd and team cheering]
1260
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:43,720
[commentator]
All the hard work paying off for Brazil,
1261
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:48,360
and the moment that the team and captain,
Antonio Leme, will never, ever forget.
1262
01:26:58,320 --> 01:26:59,880
[Ryley Batt]
There was a buzz around in Rio
1263
01:26:59,960 --> 01:27:01,960
that was just sort of electric.
1264
01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:04,000
The fans were loving the sports.
1265
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:07,360
We were lucky enough,
to be honest, in the final,
1266
01:27:07,440 --> 01:27:10,000
that I think they liked the Aussies
more than the Americans
1267
01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:11,440
and cheered us on.
1268
01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:16,320
[commentator] There is the undisputed
best player in the world, Ryley Batt.
1269
01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:20,400
[crowd cheering]
1270
01:27:20,480 --> 01:27:23,320
[Ryley Batt] There was one team we wanted
to beat in the Paralympics
1271
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:24,440
and that was the USA.
1272
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:26,560
[inhales]
1273
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,400
Looking at photos of Beijing
really turned the tables for me.
1274
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:35,120
That silver medal sat on my bedside table.
I would look at it every morning,
1275
01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:37,080
and go, "No, that needs to be gold."
1276
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:40,080
"Get yourself out of bed,
and go be an athlete."
1277
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:45,200
[commentator] Everybody in position.
1278
01:27:45,280 --> 01:27:47,560
-[whistle blows]
-It's the opening tip.
1279
01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:49,480
And we're underway.
1280
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:53,000
He's got power aplenty.
He'll barge right through.
1281
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:57,000
[applause]
1282
01:27:57,080 --> 01:28:00,960
To be honest, when I lost all that weight,
I started to accept my disability more.
1283
01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:02,000
[commentator] He's lost it here.
1284
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:10,280
Because I was more proud of who I was.
1285
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:12,520
[commentator 1] And we are level again.
1286
01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:24,840
Batt has opened up this right lane.
1287
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:29,360
Here he comes again, the battering ram.
1288
01:28:30,480 --> 01:28:33,000
[commentator 2] Ryley Batt makes it 58-57.
1289
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:35,440
[commentator 1] That could've been
a gold medal ball.
1290
01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:37,840
[commentator 2] They call a time-out.
1291
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:42,920
[Ryley Batt] My pop
was a huge influence in my life,
1292
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,680
and, you know, he always said to me,
"Lead by example."
1293
01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:50,680
Don't look like that, talk to Poppy.
1294
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:53,080
[Ryley Batt] I wanted to win for him.
1295
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:55,800
I wanted to play the best I can
for my pop.
1296
01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:57,520
[exhales deeply]
1297
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:03,280
[voice breaking] Very sad
to see him go last year... [chuckles]
1298
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,040
It gets me a bit emotional. Um...
1299
01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:07,760
But he'd be proud of who I am.
1300
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:12,280
-Bye.
-Bye.
1301
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:14,120
[woman] Bye-bye, bye-bye. [chuckles]
1302
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:24,880
[commentator] Australia with the inbound
inside of 3.6 seconds. It's up to Batt.
1303
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:26,400
[crowd cheering]
1304
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:32,120
Batt will take it across the line,
and it's over!
1305
01:29:34,480 --> 01:29:36,160
They will win the gold medal!
1306
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:40,840
What a moment as they do it in extra time.
1307
01:29:45,040 --> 01:29:48,720
[Ryley Batt] I love it because you've won
with 11 of your best mates.
1308
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:58,560
[all] Whoo!
1309
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:02,360
[Andrew Parsons] I believe that maybe Rio
was even more important
1310
01:30:02,440 --> 01:30:04,160
to the Paralympic movement than London
1311
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:08,160
because we were
never as exposed as in Rio.
1312
01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:12,880
We were never that raw, you know.
It was pure sport.
1313
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:15,600
[commentator speaking Portuguese]
1314
01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:23,240
-Goal!
-[crowd cheering]
1315
01:30:24,080 --> 01:30:26,040
[commentator continues]
1316
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:27,640
[Bebe Vio in English]
A Paralympic athlete,
1317
01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:31,720
they are ready to create
another new story through the sport.
1318
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:34,360
You train for your entire life,
in order to have that moment.
1319
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,800
Rio was tough because I had this problem
to do with my arm.
1320
01:30:43,440 --> 01:30:47,200
I couldn't fence the week before,
and I was so depressed.
1321
01:30:47,280 --> 01:30:49,720
Everybody was fencing,
everybody was getting better,
1322
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:51,840
and then I was just there, sitting.
1323
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,920
Rio, I was shooting the best
I had shot in a long time,
1324
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:01,160
and I knew I was gonna win.
1325
01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:05,040
[announcer] Ten!
1326
01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:06,840
-[man] Whoo-hoo!
-[crowd cheering]
1327
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:10,160
-[buzzer sounds]
-[commentator speaking Portuguese]
1328
01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:12,440
[Matt Stutzman] I remember shooting
my last arrow,
1329
01:31:12,520 --> 01:31:15,920
and I had to hit a ten to win,
nine to tie, eight I lose.
1330
01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:23,200
[commentator speaking Portuguese]
1331
01:31:24,080 --> 01:31:26,720
[Matt Stutzman in English]
I had equipment malfunction and I lost.
1332
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:31,200
And, like, that was heartbreaking for me.
1333
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:35,440
Like, Rio and I
aren't good friends, you know?
1334
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:38,800
Um, and it took a while
to recover from that one,
1335
01:31:39,760 --> 01:31:42,840
for sure, because of the dedication
1336
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,880
and what you do
to put in four hard years of time.
1337
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:55,160
[commentator] Welcome back to Carioca 3,
and Paralympic wheelchair fencing.
1338
01:31:55,240 --> 01:31:57,240
[indistinct announcements]
1339
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:01,440
[Bebe Vio] Two days before
the Paralympics, I start again fencing,
1340
01:32:01,520 --> 01:32:05,760
but I was fencing in such a bad way
because I was so stressed.
1341
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:08,040
My coach was, "You are doing great."
I was like, "No!"
1342
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:11,320
"Don't tell me that I'm doing great
if I'm not doing great!"
1343
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:12,720
"Fuck off! Just go away!"
1344
01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:18,400
It was really difficult for me.
1345
01:32:18,480 --> 01:32:20,280
If nobody believes in me, it's okay,
1346
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:23,000
but if I don't believe in myself,
that's a real problem.
1347
01:32:38,160 --> 01:32:40,360
[Bebe Vio] Chinese,
they dominated everything
1348
01:32:40,440 --> 01:32:42,920
for years, every competition.
1349
01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:45,760
They are so strong,
and we don't know how is that possible?
1350
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:04,600
[commentator 1] In just a few minutes,
we'll have a new Paralympic champion.
1351
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:09,960
And now, the referee asks for the fencers
to come en garde.
1352
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:12,880
-[indistinct announcements]
-[beeping]
1353
01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:15,720
-[coach] Hey!
-[Bebe cheering]
1354
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:16,960
Bebe! Bebe!
1355
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:19,120
[commentator 1] If she's celebrating
like this after one point,
1356
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:22,440
imagine if she makes it first to 15.
1357
01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:24,000
Hey! Hey!
1358
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:26,800
[Bebe Vio] Everything was perfect
with one point and then the other point.
1359
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:29,280
-[official] Allez.
-[coach] Hey!
1360
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:32,120
Mamma mia! What am I even doing, you know?
1361
01:33:32,200 --> 01:33:33,200
[official] Allez.
1362
01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:37,320
[competitor yells]
1363
01:33:37,400 --> 01:33:40,200
[commentator 2]
Well, don't forget that she is competing
1364
01:33:40,280 --> 01:33:43,560
now against the new épée champion here.
1365
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:44,840
-[official] Allez.
-[beeping]
1366
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:46,600
[cheering]
1367
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:49,320
[commentator 2] A quick one,
she's brought it up to just one point.
1368
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:50,400
[indistinct shouting]
1369
01:33:50,480 --> 01:33:52,120
[Bebe Vio]
Physically, she's better than me,
1370
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:53,320
because she has the hands,
1371
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:56,320
or she has the legs,
so she's much better than me.
1372
01:33:56,400 --> 01:33:57,640
-[official] Allez.
-[beeping]
1373
01:33:59,560 --> 01:34:00,560
[coach] Hey!
1374
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:02,320
[yelling]
1375
01:34:02,400 --> 01:34:03,760
[speaking Italian]
1376
01:34:03,840 --> 01:34:06,240
[commentator 2 in English]
She wants it so badly.
1377
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:08,000
A point back, though.
1378
01:34:08,480 --> 01:34:11,280
[indistinct shouting]
1379
01:34:12,400 --> 01:34:14,760
-[Bebe Vio yelling]
-[commentator 1] So pumped.
1380
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:20,120
Back up to five-point lead now for Vio.
1381
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:23,640
-[official] Prêtes. Allez.
-[beeping]
1382
01:34:23,720 --> 01:34:25,120
[coach] Hey!
1383
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:29,960
[commentator 1]
The Italian is feeling some discomfort.
1384
01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:34,160
Just caught with a flick hit,
behind her mask, on the back of her head.
1385
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:39,560
Look at that,
you can just see the flick of Zhou,
1386
01:34:39,640 --> 01:34:43,560
went over the top of the mask
and flipped down onto the skull.
1387
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:46,080
[man] She wants ice.
1388
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:50,400
[Bebe Vio] When I was really young
and even now,
1389
01:34:50,480 --> 01:34:52,840
if I feel some pain,
I just don't say anything.
1390
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:55,560
I say, "It doesn't matter,
it will go away."
1391
01:34:55,640 --> 01:34:59,840
So when I say it's pain,
it's really, really pain.
1392
01:35:00,720 --> 01:35:03,600
[commentator 1] She's smiling,
but that looked incredibly painful.
1393
01:35:03,680 --> 01:35:05,320
[crowd cheering]
1394
01:35:05,400 --> 01:35:07,800
[dramatic music playing]
1395
01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:11,520
[crowd cheering and clapping]
1396
01:35:22,880 --> 01:35:26,200
[commentator 2]
Beatrice Vio wants it so badly,
1397
01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:30,640
and the Paralympic Games,
they create heroes, they really do.
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01:35:30,720 --> 01:35:31,560
[official] En garde.
1399
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:35,240
-[official] Prêtes. Allez.
-[coach shouting]
1400
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:36,640
[Bebe Vio yelling]
1401
01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:40,320
[commentator 1]
Just one point away from the gold medal.
1402
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:47,040
[Bebe Vio] When you're winning,
and you realize that's the 14th point,
1403
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:49,560
you are there and say,
"Okay, it's the last one."
1404
01:35:50,080 --> 01:35:52,040
And if the last
is going the right position,
1405
01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:53,920
in the right way, you win.
1406
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,600
And you realize it all,
you realize all your life.
1407
01:35:56,680 --> 01:35:58,440
[indistinct shouting]
1408
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:04,840
[shouting in Italian]
1409
01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:10,320
But if you don't put the last point,
you will cry for your entire life.
1410
01:36:10,400 --> 01:36:14,480
[crowd clapping rhythmically and chanting]
1411
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:18,640
[man cheering for Bebe in Italian]
1412
01:36:20,880 --> 01:36:23,720
[commentator 1] Everybody waits
on the edge of their seat.
1413
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:32,200
-[official] Prêtes. Allez.
-[Bebe Vio yelling]
1414
01:36:32,280 --> 01:36:34,280
[crowd cheering]
1415
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:41,000
[indistinct announcement]
1416
01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:44,160
[commentator 1] The 19-year-old,
from Venice in Italy,
1417
01:36:44,240 --> 01:36:47,240
just doesn't know what to do with herself.
1418
01:36:47,320 --> 01:36:49,440
The emotion's so raw.
1419
01:37:06,320 --> 01:37:09,320
[Bebe Vio] When I went back to fencing,
I said, "Okay, guys, I'm Bebe."
1420
01:37:09,400 --> 01:37:12,200
"I'm without the legs and the arms.
I just wanna do fencing."
1421
01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:16,280
"It's impossible.
You do fencing with these three fingers,
1422
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:19,600
and then the wrist,
so that's the part that you need,
1423
01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:20,920
that's the fencing,
1424
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:23,280
and you don't have this part,
so you cannot do fencing."
1425
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:32,520
It was impossible, but everything
is impossible at the beginning.
1426
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:40,320
You just need to believe in yourself.
Just go ahead, do whatever you want.
1427
01:37:53,120 --> 01:37:55,120
[crickets chirping]
1428
01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:02,840
[all chanting] Brazil! Brazil! Brazil!
1429
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:05,680
[crowd cheering]
1430
01:38:10,280 --> 01:38:14,000
It's the closing ceremony
for the Paralympics. Check it out!
1431
01:38:23,640 --> 01:38:27,800
We've proven, through Rio,
that we've got a united movement.
1432
01:38:27,880 --> 01:38:29,120
[crowd cheering]
1433
01:38:35,600 --> 01:38:37,520
Whenever the shit hits the fan,
1434
01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:40,360
then our movement's gonna
come around and say,
1435
01:38:40,440 --> 01:38:43,760
"Hey, you're not doing this to us.
We're gonna have our Games,
1436
01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:45,840
and we are gonna
get our message out there,
1437
01:38:45,920 --> 01:38:48,040
and we are gonna help change society
1438
01:38:48,120 --> 01:38:50,480
and make this planet
a better place to live on."
1439
01:39:06,480 --> 01:39:09,720
It is so much more
than just winning medals.
1440
01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:10,880
[crowd cheering]
1441
01:39:24,440 --> 01:39:28,160
[pilot in Italian] Bebe Vio. Thank you,
Bebe, for all the emotions you gave us.
1442
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:30,400
Today, it's you who is making us fly.
1443
01:39:30,480 --> 01:39:32,640
[in English] Passengers,
we'd like to inform you that today,
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01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:35,640
we have the honor of welcoming
a golden medal winner
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01:39:35,720 --> 01:39:37,800
at 2016 Paralympic Games.
1446
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:42,120
[crowd chanting] Bebe! Bebe! Bebe!
1447
01:39:42,200 --> 01:39:46,040
[announcer] Your Olympic
and Paralympic medalists!
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01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:49,000
We want to play a major role
when it comes to human rights.
1449
01:39:49,080 --> 01:39:51,080
We are going back to where we started.
1450
01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:57,240
[Duke of Sussex] Sir Ludwig's vision
has not really been completed,
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01:39:57,320 --> 01:40:01,560
because still, those that are
referred to as being disabled
1452
01:40:01,640 --> 01:40:03,560
are not being encouraged,
1453
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:07,440
or not being accepted
back into the society at large.
1454
01:40:08,840 --> 01:40:13,880
What Sir Ludwig was trying to do back then
is needed more now than it's ever been.
1455
01:40:13,960 --> 01:40:17,160
[energizing music playing]
1456
01:40:26,840 --> 01:40:30,640
[Jonnie Peacock] People feel sorry for me.
Why? Because of a perception.
1457
01:40:30,720 --> 01:40:33,040
They go, Aw, he's not got a leg.
I should feel sorry for him."
1458
01:40:40,840 --> 01:40:43,400
[Jean-Baptiste Alaize in French]
My disability is my strength.
1459
01:40:44,240 --> 01:40:45,600
I'm going to die this way.
1460
01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:51,040
My leg is not going to grow back.
1461
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:52,240
I am not a lizard.
1462
01:40:54,640 --> 01:40:56,840
[Matt Stutzman in English]
Everybody has a superpower
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01:40:56,920 --> 01:40:59,160
that they find out
at some point in their lives.
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01:41:08,720 --> 01:41:11,520
[Bebe Vio] You just need to accept
the situation in which you are.
1465
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:18,040
And discover how beautiful it is.
1466
01:41:21,160 --> 01:41:24,320
[triumphant music playing]
1467
01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:44,240
♪ There's a young boy
Walking through obstacles ♪
1468
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:47,280
♪ Cut up from all the surgery
Prosthetic picture perjury ♪
1469
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:48,480
♪ Tellin' me I'm normal ♪
1470
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:50,960
♪ But normal
They never really made me seem ♪
1471
01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:52,200
♪ They always painted me ♪
1472
01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:55,600
♪ Discriminated but levitated
Through all the hated scenes ♪
1473
01:41:55,680 --> 01:41:58,800
♪ So I redrew how they made me seem ♪
1474
01:41:58,880 --> 01:42:02,000
♪ But that's what you feel around vultures
And all the fatal schemes ♪
1475
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:05,200
♪ They wanna label me a cripple
That's the way it seems ♪
1476
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:08,400
♪ Take away my right to pursue
A normal life and lead ♪
1477
01:42:08,480 --> 01:42:12,200
♪ Indeed, for me, I must proceed
And shine bright like the sun ♪
1478
01:42:12,280 --> 01:42:14,240
♪ Even though I know
The darkness will come ♪
1479
01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:17,440
♪ It's all temporary
I can be legendary ♪
1480
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:20,000
♪ 'Cause I will never stop
Believing in me ♪
1481
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:22,200
♪ It doesn't matter
What you think I should be ♪
1482
01:42:22,280 --> 01:42:25,560
♪ See, I am what I am
I'm the truth, I'm disabled ♪
1483
01:42:25,640 --> 01:42:28,680
♪ I'm amazing, understand?
Don't you ever underrate me ♪
1484
01:42:28,760 --> 01:42:30,280
♪ 'Cause I got a second chance ♪
1485
01:42:30,360 --> 01:42:34,000
♪ And I choose to be the greatest
In whatever the plan is ♪
1486
01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:37,200
♪ On my life, right
I ignite like ♪
1487
01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:39,640
♪ A kaboom
When I step in the room ♪
1488
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:41,800
♪ So please don't get distracted ♪
1489
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:43,520
♪ Yes, my limbs are fractured ♪
1490
01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:45,600
♪ Still I rise from the ashes ♪
1491
01:42:45,680 --> 01:42:48,800
♪ I'm a rising phoenix ♪
1492
01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:54,240
♪ I rise above you ♪
1493
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:01,680
♪ I'm a rising phoenix ♪
1494
01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:07,040
♪ I rise above you ♪
1495
01:43:12,440 --> 01:43:14,240
♪ On ya mark, get set
The pistol pops ♪
1496
01:43:14,320 --> 01:43:16,240
♪ I'm out the blocks
To hit the ground runnin' ♪
1497
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:17,160
♪ No legs
They dazed ♪
1498
01:43:17,240 --> 01:43:20,600
♪ To serve a new form of human being
Born to do it ♪
1499
01:43:20,680 --> 01:43:22,000
♪ That's why I be so smooth ♪
1500
01:43:22,080 --> 01:43:25,960
♪ Why I light them from the lead position
Watch just how I keep it movin' ♪
1501
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:28,200
♪ Usin' your lack of intuition ♪
1502
01:43:28,280 --> 01:43:31,160
♪ Presumin' my condition
Predictions end up BS ♪
1503
01:43:31,240 --> 01:43:32,640
♪ Bargaining
Arise here ♪
1504
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:35,440
♪ Transform right before their eyes
And into the sky ♪
1505
01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:37,960
♪ The ashes fall while the phoenix rise ♪
1506
01:43:38,040 --> 01:43:41,080
♪ Lead with example
And do everything in life I see ♪
1507
01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:43,240
♪ A simple thing like riding a bike ♪
1508
01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:45,160
♪ We are alike
How is that? ♪
1509
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:47,480
♪ Enlighten me
There's so much fight in me ♪
1510
01:43:47,560 --> 01:43:49,800
♪ 'Cause my superpower
It makes me different ♪
1511
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:50,960
♪ There's light in me ♪
1512
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:53,760
♪ Wait
How many obstacles I gotta break? ♪
1513
01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:57,040
♪ How many fights I gotta face
Just to make you feel my fate? ♪
1514
01:43:57,120 --> 01:44:00,040
♪ I shake
Then I break down ♪
1515
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:02,880
♪ Yeah
But I take all the weight down ♪
1516
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:05,840
♪ I'm a rising phoenix ♪
1517
01:44:05,920 --> 01:44:11,040
♪ I rise above you ♪
1518
01:44:15,160 --> 01:44:18,400
♪ I'm a rising phoenix ♪
1519
01:44:18,480 --> 01:44:23,880
♪ I rise above you ♪
1520
01:44:28,760 --> 01:44:32,240
♪ People make fun
Of what they don't understand ♪
1521
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:35,320
♪ Look at me 'cause I'm different
And can't do what they can ♪
1522
01:44:35,400 --> 01:44:38,600
♪ But belittle me you won't
Because I am what I am ♪
1523
01:44:38,680 --> 01:44:41,440
♪ I am amazing, a different pill
In which your brain cannot cram ♪
1524
01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:43,040
♪ I'm different ♪
1525
01:44:43,120 --> 01:44:46,440
♪ Often inspired by pain
Inflicted by the inhumane ♪
1526
01:44:46,520 --> 01:44:48,120
♪ With hearts as black as the grain ♪
1527
01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:51,400
♪ My disability is silent
But my bottled-up rage ♪
1528
01:44:51,480 --> 01:44:54,280
♪ Got me runnin' for my dreams
100 miles with one leg ♪
1529
01:44:54,360 --> 01:45:00,880
♪ So how dare you try to remind me
That I don't fit into your perception ♪
1530
01:45:00,960 --> 01:45:04,040
♪ How dare you
Define me ♪
1531
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:06,760
♪ I'm beyond what you see as perfection ♪
1532
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:09,840
♪ I'm a rising phoenix ♪
1533
01:45:09,920 --> 01:45:15,000
♪ I rise above you ♪
1534
01:45:19,160 --> 01:45:22,640
♪ I'm a rising phoenix ♪
1535
01:45:22,720 --> 01:45:27,920
♪ I rise above you ♪