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a new reality. how will that impact the people as events unfold in the world, react day with the latest news and analysis from unknown news? high on semi. okay. the tokyo 2020 paralympic games are underway, more than 4000 athletes standing by tight pot. it is one of the biggest international events for athletes with disabilities. now that we go to the university of health care bookman thinks that the paralympics is an incredible opportunity. have a look, have a mr. can the 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, at the games, the mobile home a chance to watch and learn from japan success stories as well as its failures in being no. going to be a chance to have a conversation about what it means to create a truly accessible and inclusive society from persons with disabilities, both inside and outside under 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 participate? all you get to know more? yes. yes, yes. ok. his comment section, feel, and youtube jumping or comment section, the part of today's program. let's lead, i guess, right here in the day i have linda, linda get to have you hear. welcome and, and stab. 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 1992 and 96 games bar salon in atlanta,

competing for the united states in wheelchair truck and want to golden silver metal in 1996 and and for the us, our very exciting. hello. 2 and welcome back to the good to have you remind our audience in the context of paralympic games and what full a strike. i am apparently in pin i represented kenya in 2004, and they joined british in 2006. all right, good to have you add add sam. welcome to the stream institution south side. international audience has the context with which you're coming to us to talk about the problem again. thanks have any on the show and i've been fortunate to great britain twice part of the game from 12 and 2016 for 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 20. 20. i wondering 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 or 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 parallel pins, parallel implants,

what is that like do you know, i think sort of all, you sort of just get selected. your name is called out and it change it. sheds change is how you feel about things. because for a start, you know that you are not just and that leads, but you actually lead tucker that you are good enough to re present your initial and you're good enough to represent your country. so i'm sure they actually would be feeling, you know, there be fully 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 that i'm not even close to completing anyway. so my resume, why did you know go ahead, articulate. i can only echo lender already said he never failing to be

to be in that position but or the training or the preparation. you've done all that and you know, you're part of history. your very full percentage are now get to represent your country at the highest level, and i know that will be feeling that they're ready to make a special events backward. so that's where they'll be. they'll be ready to be ready . right. i'm ready got to say that because a little while ago on the screen we had jose boy costs on and juice has come pay for many years lympics to be i've a reform drastically or absolutely bad. one of these arguments for not going had we took care was causing our 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 some thing of this magnitude that can uplift us. and remind us that we can achieve great things that we can transcend. yeah, yes, i go ahead. you know,

i think us, all right. we needed these games and you know, why we need these games because the pandemic has just shown, you know, that big gap between the december people and then december, people become even wider and wider. so i think these games i just on 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 game. 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 days. 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 a 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 am. yeah, i'll get this, simon and linda, i was going to be like throwing out powell in p and names. so by the end they show you, i know so many power and influence in the beginning i was, 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 know,

cure 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, what you right now on 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 pilots prioritize fewer pul casters and sponsors compared to the lympics. there's a lot in that excitement, but also a way of seeing power, limpy, and some you want to start with that and having, having been doing some work with all cost us in africa and outside of africa,

the story there. so, so, so important broadcasting nice stuff and for the part of the game, it's our shop window happens on 34 years. and every time around the world you will see people with a disability at lot. and there's always an important moment take on job and, and the value of it will soon come to fruition. i think the olympics in the parent and picks that there are 2 separate things we will do want them to be on equal policy parity between those 2 things. apparently, bins are always fighting the drum for that. we can only hope the aptitude investments will start to 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 on. i want to introduce you to christina kat . she's a full team usa swimmer and disability advocate 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 you 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 will 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, you know, in, in the prime hours didn't happen. it was always off hours off time. so it was

a really, you know, 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 misunderstanding of paralympic sport of disability sport of the power of these pursuits, right. and the importance that we need to place on them miss. she teaches, she's actually, she's up to you. right. that, that the biggest disability is about the worth and whole anybody even for better going through, you know, 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 one moment here, not interested in me, but even if they do get in the door, if it is, is that the coach, if he isn't able to adapt his practices,

he isn't able to adapt the way he thinks the way he believes about about what we can do is going to be a terrible session to 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 actually right, that's the most important to you. and hopefully the parent is who seek to change that student challenge perspective his credit. but, 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, besides vantage of as of by square. and i think maybe this is something that's him, the power of movement meters, you know, to look into. how do we bring that fan is, how do we make sure that, you know, the 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 the tv. come 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 your cook equipment for his sport. i said, look how i saw when it goes with over my working conditions and 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, window 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 tracks by choose because the suitable fields and basically closed you may do with what you half of x. so how do you address that? just lack of equipment. so the power in them picks the lympics is international.

it's not international if you can afford it. it's not supposed to be that. it's fortunately, it's a very level playing field and i know allocated test to this, and then there's well being being wheelchair truck races very often. if, if the technology is of the highest quality, the pedal, it will help you get to the line quicker will to i think that with seats in the got a table and 2012 finished that didn't even make it to me finals because that has that whole standard, they work, i could not compete the part of the committee in hard. i'm thinking about, i'm thinking about going to allow all of these, these people, but one of these committees holding on don't do that. right. and they're funding coming from their own pocket. the government i'm interested, is really hard to come by because businesses are not big enough. it have a social responsibility for corporate social. i have a budget for sponsorship. so it's a very, very,

very difficult thing to try and tackle the willingness is that the finances people to see the benefits 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 me sustain that progression to the part of it. yeah, i promise you christine to earlier and as a former disabled team usa swimmer, i can certainly say that our disabled athletes here in the united states need more support. we need more support and understanding from our coaches to training to our practices, to our infrastructure. and iraq, through our collegiate settings to create federal 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 that since in some challenges that have been happening in paralympics and, and also special olympics and, and sports where people with disabilities are taking part the pieces out for a long time. linda, 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 who go to the schools who 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, than we were talking about a moment ago. but i think what we also 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 takes some effort, but i think we can do it and i think we have to do it because it goes to what i am and, and, and, oh my goodness sam. sorry, yeah. what are you when sam were saying, right,

about equity and 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 was in the u. k. just last week and i heard you on the radio talking about this, we the 15. so the 1515 percent of everybody in the world that go i will population will have some kind of disability. we 15 was launched around these paralympic games . say we need to be thinking about off as a community, as a global community beyond maybe just watching fantastic power. limbeck is a little snip of the hum, paying videos. your mind mean?

can you use super heroes really to getting the kids out the door in time we push through and i was grateful like there's nothing special about us some serious attitudes. right. i love the stereotypes smashing ideas of what are the, how it happens alike. and also people with disabilities and quickly what about that then sam and linda you know, i, i just love that to be 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 is we are just ordinary human beings that really want 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 for campaign. it's not just to fatality protections or grew up in that the stakeholders, the policy holders change at the top, those that have the power, those key finances need to start taking you seriously because the world in accessible need be more accessible and hopefully the part and the games keep banging the drum 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. when i tell you what's, you know, you said that one thing that i would like to say is, i think the while just have to realize that disability is, you know, it is the only and largest minority group that anyone can join any time. you know, and it's an incident. 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 in, all right, this is a, this is a new olympic part of the tradition name one parent that you're watching for some

that we need to be watching out for very quickly. don't think that paul. go ahead. i'm but i'm biased. it's my, it's my best friend. his name is jonathan rom, edwards, and he'll go in the t. t 42, or is the f even? i remember the say. hi john. 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 just come out of retirement after winning for gordon meadows in the 2012 paralympics. so i'll be watching it is 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 tokyo 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 actually watching, i'll see you next time, take care, so forth. sport for me has a big place. thanks to this. i flourished physically. i rebuilt myself, mentally ill. with them all through 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 to give us hope and it's 9. and so my, my ambition and my wish that society would not look down on those who are disabled and that it sees our capabilities and not our handicap. because disability is a gift, not an obstacle, not only be in deep data. the

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