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ah ah ah answer me. okay. the tokyo 2020 paralympic games are underway, more than 4000 athlete standing by tight pot. it is one of the biggest international events for athletes with disabilities. now we go to the university of tokyo, bookman thinks that this car lympics is an incredible opportunity. have a look, have a mr. ken paralympics creek watershed moment around disability awareness in japan? absolutely. over the last couple years, there have been

a number of projects to remove barriers to education, employment, entertainment, and other sectors of society from the sales people. now apple games, the mobile home a chance to watch and learn from japan success stories as well as those failures in being no. going to be a chance to have a global conversation around what it means to create a truly accessible and inclusive society. for persons with disabilities, both inside and outside of them. oh wow. that is what mark is thinking. what is the conversation you want to hear today? are you watching the paralympic games? have you participated? all you get to know more? yes. yes. yes. ok. his comments actually feeling youtube, jumping your comment section, the part of today's program. let's lead i guess, right here in the studio. i have linda. linda get to have you hear. welcome. and, and sam, linda, 1st of all 10 audience who you are in the context of the paralympic games, of course. so i was paralympic athlete in the 1990 to 96 games. barcelona in

atlanta, competing for the united states in wheelchair truck and want to golden silver metal in 1996. and for the u. s. our very exciting. hello. 2 and welcome back to the good to have you remind audience in the context paralympic games and was full a strike. i am apparently empty and i represented kenya in 2004 and they joined the british in 2006. all right, good to have you and, and sam, welcome to the stream in future south side international audience and the contact with which you're coming to us to talk about the problem again. thanks have any on the show. and i've been fortunate in great britain twice a part it became from the 12 and 2016. but the 1st time i'm watching from home. oh yeah. now you know what it feels like. it's not here on my laptop. this is from the parent and pick games to, to account memories to last

a lifetime. i love the olympics so much. how good was the opening ceremony? paralympics? tokyo, 2020 i one drain. linda. you get us started. what is it like to be in that parent? pick village right now with all of your sport, the head of, you know, your competition is coming up. do you feel any different from the athlete through the same vintage couple of weeks ago? do you think? no, i don't think so. i think you feel this sense of excitement, anticipation, readiness. you know, there's this feeling that you're ready to take on the world that you're part of something bigger than yourself. you're representing your country, are there with your team, but you're really representing that to the world. and you know what, it's like to be that you've been there, you know, in this moment for those para limp and parallel implants. what is that

like to know? i think 1st of all, you sort of just gets selected, your name is called out and it change, it just changes how you feel about things. because for a start, you know that you are not just natalie, but you're actually an elite chocolate. you are good enough to re present your initial, you're good and you're good enough to represent your country. so i'm sure they actually would be feeling, you know, there before, so much joy, elation, but also it must be wanting to do their best. these anxiety that comes with it, you know, the panic definitely i used to, you know, i used to panic. you know, every night before i went out to compete. so i'm just, some of them will be feeling. right. you know, feel scared. i'm not even close to completing anyway. so that was a slow resonated. why did you say no? go ahead. or i could, i could only echo what lender already said,

the nerve wracking feeling to be, to be in that position but, or the training or the preparation. you've done all that and you know, your part of history, your very full percentage on now get to represent your country at the highest level, and i know that will be feeling ready, but anyways, it's rather, it depends on the special events backwards. so that way if they so they'll be, they'll be ready, i'll be ready. right. i'm ready got to say that because a little while ago on the screen we had jose boy, cough on and juice has come pay for many years to be a lympics to be. i've a reform drastically or absolutely bad. one of his arguments for not going had token was, how's it global pandemic? this is what he said about the power limpid games to ram ahead with the paralympic games is to take a massive gamble with global public health, with the public health in japan. and also with the health of paralympic athletes,

some of whom are immunocompromised, and thus more open to the ravages of coven 19. o linda, was your legal head on that? what. what do you think? so i think this is a challenging year, no doubt. but i think that the, the athletes, the teams, the delegations, the international paralympic committee, the japan organizing committee have all taken great measures, great pains, great steps to ensure the safety of the athletes and the coaches, and the staff and the japanese public as well. and you know, i don't, i don't know that there's a perfect solution, but i think the games to me are, they're so important and i think we need them right now. we need something of this magnitude that can uplift us. and remind us that we can achieve great things that

we can transcend. yeah, yes. go ahead. you know, i think us so right. we needed these games and you know why we needed these games because the pandemic has just shown, you know, that big gap between the descent, what people and then disable people become even wider and wider. so i think these games, i just one time, you know, to remind the while that we are here, we can do our best. but also to remind the wife that what happens after the games, you know, what is going to happen to the, what's happening to those other disabled people who are not. but we're not competing in these 12, dave, this is a reminder that this disability is here. and this is something that one cannot run away from i oh, i'm going to say that's right. i think that that this is, it is a reminder, this is a, the games are really a springboard right there. they're an important event in and of themselves. but

they are really springboard to something bigger. they are a mechanism to communicate to the world about the abilities of people with disabilities. and the possibility when you provide opportunity to people with disabilities. and i think that that is something that transcends the games that carries further than the games. and that's the message that needs to come out of these games. audience, i think, yeah, i guess it's simon and linda i was going to be like throwing out how i live p and names. so by the end they show you i know so many period in the beginning i, i was thought that game. ok. we've k d ma johnny, and she's a paralympic wheelchair tennis player from south africa, the best in south africa, one of the best in the world. she is in tokyo right now. this is what she said a few months ago about competing i'm so like, my generation could go out there and play. and whenever i put you into like dead to

prison, my country you care it with lot of pride cause it's not only for me, but it also gives hope to those who are at home from similar background is me to actually be hopeful that they can make it in any aspect of their life. so our audience was right now, and youtube is a comment here. now i guess i want you to be truly, truly honest, because part of the show is educational as well. so this is addie added. thank you so much for watching. very excited for the paralympics. it is the showcase of the world super humans. it is much cooler in that it is always less power, tara prioritize fewer pul casters and sponsors compared to the lympics. there's a lot in that excitement, but also a way of seeing power limp in some you want to start with that. but having, having been doing some work with broadcasters in africa and outside of africa,

the story that so, so, so important broadcasting need for the part of the game. it's our shot window happens on through for years. and so every time around the world that you will see people with a disability at lot and only i can go there. it's always such an important moment. we have taken phones, job and, and the value of it will soon come to fruition. i think the olympics in the power and picks that, that 2 separate things will do, want them to be on equal policy parity between those 2 things. apparently been the always back in the drum for the we can only hope the aptitude investments will come with paris only 3 years away. now. the big interest and the finances are going to increase the absent challenges. so power limpy and pointing out what these challenges i want to introduce to christine ducats. she is a full team usa swimmer, and disability advocate. have a listen. have

a look. alright, we're going to come to christine interesting moment. christine is going to be talking about some of the challenges that palestinians have in terms of practicing in terms of access to facilities. in terms of coaching. these are really difficult things. the difficult things will not be anywhere. linda, can you tell me your experience? so when you're fighting for disability rights and you're being that advocate like christine is, what are you finding that may well surprise people? sure. so i came from chicago and was participating in disability and paralympic support programs there. and one of the things that that we had to do was fight for access to facilities. i had to negotiate with track coaches with administrators of schools and programs to get time on the track to train our sled. hockey team literally had ice time at midnight. that's the only time the rink would give them

midnight midnight midnight. and so access to facilities in the prime hours didn't happen. it was always off hours off time. so it was really, you know, a recognition of the lesser importance placed on disability sport, paralympic sport. i think things are slowly changing over time, but i think what has to happen even more than getting physical access to places? it's the attitude. it's the, the misunderstanding of paralympic sport of disability sport of the power of these pursuits, right. and the importance that we need to place on them she to, she said she's absent, she's up to you. right? that the biggest disability is about after she gets the whole, anybody before going through and i think for anybody get the door. so if you've ever the truck before the field, it's an accessible that passed away immediately because they're going to believe

this person doesn't have to me, but they won't. they won't be here for not interested in make, even if they do get in the door. if the run is lift, is that the coach, if he isn't able to adapt his practice, is he able to adapt the way he thinks the way he believes about about what athlete can do. it's going to be a terrible session for them. and if it's the 1st session in the 1st impression, they won't come back and that's the most and she's up to you, right? that's the most important thing on the sheet. and hopefully the parent begins and seek to change that student challenge perspective his credit. but you know what, but another another, another point here is, you know, like sometimes equipment is just extremely expensive. you know. and because of that, you sort of get to see that certain nations will be beside advantage over others of bites. and i think maybe this is something that's him, the power movement need to, you know, to look into. how do we bring that fan this?

how do we make sure that, you know, the several people from the developing nation get equal access to real power sports . you know everything to make it sustainable. right? well, you know, let me just let me just bring in davy, con connie, who is a guy beneath paralympics printer and, and he, he picks up where you left off on how difficult it is to even get by you could equipment for his sport and have a look at little saw when it goes recover my working conditions are not very adequate. so i would like the federation and the government to take a little interest in the athletes. because i can only train with what i got. i have nothing but i get by like a real capital. nice man, wendy balls, spend sure where you live. i don't have a choice. you see yourself there is not even a starting block. so even the starts

a complicated account where attracts by choose because the suitable fields and basically closed you may do with what you have of extra color. so how do you address that? just lack of equipment for like the parent and picks the olympics is international . it's not international if you can afford it. it's not supposed to be it's unfortunately it's a very on level playing field, and i know alex attached to this and as well being, being wheelchair truck braces. very often if, if the technology is of the highest quality that will help you get to the line quicker that will to there. i think with the in the got a in table in 2012 finished. that didn't even make it to me finals because that has with, with that whole the standard they work, i could not compete. i'm the, the part of the committee in the hard. i'm thinking about, i'm thinking about going to allow all of these, these people that run these committees holding on don't jumped up there. right. and

they're funding coming from their own pocket. the government i'm interested was it was really hard to come by because businesses are not big enough, but it happens social responsibility a corporate social. i have a bucket for sponsorship. so it's a very, very, very difficult thing to try and tackle the willingness is that the finance is people to see the benefit in allowing it to be sustainable. as i said, i feel i feel good. the nation that comes once again is not, is not going to help enough lead to saying that progressions with the part. yeah, i promise you christine to earlier and as a former disabled team, you are a swimmer. i can certainly say that our disabled athletes here in the united states need more support. we need more support in understanding from our coaches, to training to our practices,

to our infrastructure and era, through our collegiate settings to create unfettered pipeline and work decimal pipeline for all athletes who truly want to be parallel and they love all of all levels of disability so i am seeing here, dest simpson, some challenges that have been happening in power, lympics and, and also special olympics and, and sports where people with disabilities are taking part the pieces again for a long time. wind up what's got better. so i was changed. i think, you know, from the time i was competing in the 90s to now certainly the attention of corporate sponsors has changed and improve the number of nations competing and able to field delegations has improved. i think the, the, the, the representation, right, we hear representation matters or representation matters. it goes to what christian

was saying about developing that pipeline. i think that some countries are better at developing and implementing that pipeline and others like, you know, like the united states for example, need, need some work. but i think that the games can help facilitate that. because when you have some young child who can now watch the games on tv and see somebody like themselves and say, wow, i can do that right? and then that starts the conversation with their parents to go to the school to get the money to make it happen. now, yes, i'm talking more specifically about the u. s. than some of the more resource challenged countries than you know, then we were talking about a moment ago. but i think what we also then have to do is get the resource, you know, the more heavily resourced countries like the u. k, the u. s. australia, canada, together to really facilitate growing the world wide pipeline and you know,

i think we can do it, it take some effort, but i think we can do it and i think we have to do it because it goes to what an and, and, and, oh, my goodness, sam, sorry, yeah, that's what i say. were you guys when sam were saying double act, right? about equity in about fairness, right? and i think it's incumbent upon those of us who have benefited from, you know, an excess of resource to share that with others. there is a campaign right now. i know that i was in the u. k. just last week and i heard you on the radio talking about this. we the 15, the 1515 percent of everybody in the world go, i will, population will have some kind of disability. we 15, it was launched around these paralympic games say we need to be thinking about off as a community, the global community beyond maybe just watching fantastic power. lympics is a little snip of the campaign video. i

mean, i use super heroes really to getting the kids out the door and time. we push through the grateful like there's nothing special about us, some area that is here, right. i love matching the stereotypes smashing ideas of what, how, how well imprints alike and also people with disabilities and quick. so what about that then sam and linda, you know, i, i just love that the job because for one, i think people always think that when you have a disability and do anything you become, you suddenly become a superhuman or

a sofa hero. i think what they're trying to tell us if we are just ordinary human beings, that really wants to be to be included in society except, you know, 3 don't fit into that category, but i hear what you're saying. i need your point. all right, some thoughts quick, we just did, it's a fantastic campaign. it's not just just a challenge perceptions for or grew up in next at the stakeholders, the policy holders that affect the change at the top, those that have the power, those key finances need to start taking you seriously. because the world in accessible at need to be more accessible and hopefully the part of the games keeps banging the drum and, and getting the message out there. the parenting teens are here are here to stay, but it's about the world at large water, large. i tell you what's, you know, you said that, and one thing that i would like to say is,

i think that while just have to realize that a disability is big, you know, it is the only unlike this minority group that anyone can join any time you know, and it's an instant. yeah, yeah, yeah, that's such a good reminder aging disability as well. so everybody out that feeling cocky, you could, you could be right. that at some point. yeah, definitely. so i think that we, the 15 campaign is it's fabulous. it's, it's timely and i think tying it into, to the paralympic games this year is really important. and i think what is really necessary is for the world to understand. right. that's that, as an sam pointed out, we're not all super heroes and superhuman but, but that people with disabilities may compete in the paralympics, just like people without disability may complete me olympics. but we may be lawyers and doctors, and writers and, you know, parents and, and all of these other things too. and i think this opens the door to that conversation, that there's economic power with,

with people with disabilities and their families and friends. right. it's a huge number and not to be ignored. i think, to sam's point, all right, this is a, this is a, a new olympic part of the big tradition name. one parallel that you're watching for some that we need to be watching out for very quickly. don't think that pause go ahead. i'm but i'm biased. 8, it's my, it's my best friend. his name is jonathan rom, edwards, and he'll, he'll go in the t. t 42, or is the f even. i remember the item that's, that's his thing. this is linda. alexa, health oh, t 34, wheelchair racer from us. oh, that's awesome. yeah, yeah. right, right. now, are you looking for, you know, you know, david, we are david just come out of retirement after winning for gord meadows in the 2012 paralympics. so i've been watching ms. it'll be between 2 events. all right,

so it's been such a pleasure having you, sam and linda. you got us really excited about watching paralympics in health care and about being good allies and watching what do we need to do going forward not just for a month once every 4 years. let me leave you with the impact of the power of sport. if your person with disabilities acts of watching, i'll see you next time, take care. so for sport, for me has a big place. thanks to this. i flourished physically. i rebuild myself mentally. is michelle. what that all there was. he grew sport. we value ourselves like others. why not go to the olympic games like others, like the able bodied, why not do great things in sport and even have a job through sport. so it gives us our dignity, give us hope, and as well as my name them. so my,

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