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void. it's kinda in my always wanted to be a professional athlete. when i was a kid like i rode motorcross but was never good enough to make it gums when i was 20. my functional life was ripped away from me. it was only when i got this prosthesis annoyed that i was able to live the life i wanted as a child was as a professional athlete. and what it was only because of this new life that i became a professional athlete young and became well champion. i would never have made it otherwise. my son had the cushion duffy beard. his new life begins with a dramatic accident in which he loses both his feet. dom i've had his back then i would have needed motivation from a drill sergeant to stand by my bed. it's just, i missed that type of inspiration. yeah. so i'm gonna put a definitive fear. mm. ah.

huffman to shane giving hope and being there is an inspiration, is nicer than winning a metal somewhere else in the well, it's been when duffy barrett goes to hospitals to encourage recent amputees. he experiences the story of his own tragic accident. it's been 14 years since he was hit by a train while riding his bike in moas western germany. kindly fond ask if there was no light so near the yellow, no red under the boom gates were open to glad i was about to ride over the 1st track. he on the right, then a big bang. the hedge off that was probably the moment when i hit the locomotive. it's been done by one caught, 3 and a half hours later where the 2 tracks become one. i and i wanted to stand up what i looked behind me. void and so my feet were missing me a window hooked up, causing my clothes were in taxes, everything covered in a lot of unsafe it's alice buffalo.

ah i says, well, what about when i woke up i was in total despair. i didn't want to die miserably alone on a railway embankment is what i wanted to say. good bye to my family davi trust for help. a local. he is him cry out. a short time later, a rescue helicopter arrives. emergency surgery follows. he's in a coma doctor's appetite, both his lower legs zix morgan after him knocked him on fire daddy, 6 weeks after the accident. i hit rock bottom and started crying on the bottom. i said to my mother, i can't do this after i want my old life back drew man out as needed. so hook without his lower legs, no longer feeling hold, no longer seeing a future dream of having his own family seems to have burst. david,

who was in his late twenties at the time, feels lost ah, economy forced on it? i couldn't imagine how i would appear to women as a disabled person, as a double leg amputee. for sophie that there is nothing sitting down on the foot bridge of the wheelchair disclosure was i also didn't want people to take pictures of me. i couldn't and didn't want to accept this situation at the time to young you . by chance he sees a tv report in the hospital about south african runa, oscar the stories, the fastest men on no legs with him, and nobody but dimmed. invite her, but suzanne does m, it's the report showed that he beat normal track and field athletes over 200 meters with his special carbon prostheses task as in up. but he won this rice funny when i saw that it provided such a spark for me. they're marked as i said, amazing what he does is i want that to relish. oh,

i need these prostheses because i also want to run that fast seen. and i formulated goals and then saw my life a little more clearly done and i saw a gulf my new life on prostheses in film. i am film mine an unfeeling sight noisily of 24 months later, davia better can walk again with the aid of prostheses. 2 years later in 2009, he became a super medalist in the 200 made a sprint. then he met oscar pastorius at the 2011 world cup and you sealant happiness, s m. i loved him. i saw him 1st on the runway and went out to him and said, oscar, you're the reason i'm standing here today. mr. gone back then after the accidents, i saw an article about you and it motivated me so much exam that i said i wanted to be an athlete bed. he thought for a moment and said, david, that's the reason i do the sport to motivate people like you want to the other. it's a thought david can't let go of to give hope to other amputees with his own story.

floors behind in germany for there in germany during the gold as well. j baron is the new world champion since then he has visited about 50 amputees in hospitals. army infra is one of the mother had both hands and both feet amputated after blood poison in linda ange, bethel, nevada, numer, minge, when there is a seriously injured person lying there, i simply know this fear of lighting lieberman. oh, also the fear of going out in public with her ccsi liliana because other people might look until the 2 are very close to day. they meet and talk openly, like on the very 1st day they miss almost 4 years ago. hi amie. oh, hello david. well how you doing my friend? yeah, i'm well and you. so i saw the last training. yes. i see vo ami is

still in pine. yeah. every week she goes to physio therapy to help train it away. my message is come, ill run my and i can sometimes the night that's on and stuff and then you wake up and laugh. yeah, yes, i wake up. laugh i never really sleep that deep london market does it. and then i realize i'm cramping up again and getting these pain stylish is as desert map sticker because especially in my leg stanza hides. i'm in a bind them for in manhattan, my amsterdam schedule, ms. swan out and are very tennis man. and is there an respond on to it so physically exhausting her me. kathy thoughts tegan is, is this your our oh it's also the case that you're always trying out something new with your prostheses. you sort of stumped on. always have new experiences, lawyer fall mom. they have to react at some point yet you haven't validated year

during the day you're distracted by every day life is or you don't even notice fun, fun fun. it might hurt us to just garnish mir. unfortunately, this you have to be patient there too late. i could do it exam. no. yeah, yes, i will, as even run as handy to some point. the strain is normal for the stamps when they get used to it. and then believe me, it will also get better at night. the does of better in that not it's which conversations just like this. the david keeps hope to victims. ringback hm, the dallas associate, liam's laptop data is a life saver for me because without him i don't even know what i would have done after the time i was in hospital. if i am calendar, he was basically there to show me that life was prostheses goes on, thus near mid. what is a vi it i gave to that life was prostheses can were the us or the i,

it's hard that every day life can be solved with prostheses just in a different where my young and also with sports. nevertheless, the 48 year old has suffered from depression since her reputation was camera. her. i have to fight to be there for my children in everyday life. canada was, i'm, it was, i would, i have to try again for them to fight my depression in my life. so frontier dinah, then, do you children give you strength or, or does it take more strength to be strong of stockton, my, my r. o. in them times thank give may strive, that's my venture. but sometimes i wish i wasn't there right now. i for kids this caught a daveille or wouldn't have to take own this responsibility to take care of other. oh no, i'm because i'm just too busy with myself. is that the to have an amusing, psychological treatment with hope she copes with her everyday life in dove it. she

has found a friend for life. mm hm. but david says the stories don't always end as well as i did with her after they met captain monoxide? yes. i'll shun in my time. i've already seen a few situations where the person after the accident didn't make it. and so suicide . as the only way out in debs mod osbee gazillion, that the 1st time something like this happened yesterday. i wondered if i had done something wrong africa, she must fight. if i could have talked to the person in a better way. madame mid, mid commuting bank. after that story, i just had to cry and cry moustache. i thought it was all just more than i could handle a drop off before does what the 35 year old needs is. someone who will listen to him. he recharges his batteries with his small family, his greatest happiness,

which is a young man, he thought no longer possible after his emergency operation. formula is, comes classroom. miss somali is clearly an anchor for me. especially after a very emotional conversation with a new amputee at the hospital, which i'm put you in car when i come home i was, my daughter is beaming at me. does try mareike is there like an i can switch off comic upside. wow. well, the 2 had been together for almost 4 years. seeing the positive in his jeans, says monica moto. and as i know this course, one thing doesn't happen in life then. maybe something else will come along that and maybe something better. me him a little that always motivates me too long. i'd always gets a homeless omit i go in order to publish mine. i'm from young been to

day, i have my own family globally and i'm just happy with the sporting success i've had in sport lation for it with the life i'm allowed to lead. now it's through and so i can say i no longer perceive the accident, negative liquid oh, desired. of course it was a bigger one. fire mish does. it was certainly a detour. emerson and asked us, but i no longer need my feet make law for the rest of my life, man, of whose honest man pull her film on by telephone. not everyone can become will champion, liked of it better. but this story shows that an amputation does not mean the end, can be an opportunity. but this requires people like duffy better who stand next to amputees, with all of them what what's

making the headlines and what's behind them. detail the news africa. they show that the issues have been the continents live are slowly getting back to normal. yeah. where on the street to give you in the report on the inside. our correspondence is on the ground reporting from across the continent. all the trends doesn't matter to you next on d, w. i mean, if it's only getting is big enough in the company that want to invest in getting in africa is that i did. i looked at my less i'm, i mean what i actually called myself a meeting. i think it's hard because, i mean that's like a job. what, what became does the kids 1st hope you're actually allowing someone to steal money from you? knowingly. ah,

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