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tv   Sports Life  Deutsche Welle  April 4, 2022 10:30am-10:46am CEST

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it's florida it's kinda in my always wanted to be a professional athlete when i was a kid like i wrote motorcross but was never good enough to make it guns when i was 20. my functional life was ripped away from me. it was only when i got this prosthesis noise that i was able to live the life i wanted as a child was as a professional athlete. and 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 did. his new life begins with a dramatic accident in which he loses both his feet. dom i've had to back then i would have needed motivation from a drill sergeant to stand by my bed. just i missed that type of inspiration. yeah. so i'm gonna put a different tier give here. mm ah
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hoffman. so 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 mo, as western germany kindly swan dusky. there were no lights on near the yellow, no red owners, the boom gates were open after glad i was about to ride over the 1st track here on the right. then a big bang on the head 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 and me a window hooked up because in my clothes were in taxes, everything covered in the lot once efforts, unless buffalo, who ah
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what, what about when i woke up i was in total despair. i didn't want to die miserably. alone on a railway embankment what i wanted to say good bye to my family. davi cries 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 doctors 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 baggage room an 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,
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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 amputated through 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 you. by chance, he sees a tv report in the hospital about south african runa, oscar the stories, the fastest men on no legs to serve 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 per stacy's desk as a lab. but he won this rice for me 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 of and i formulated goals and then saw my life a little more clearly than and i saw
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a gulf my new life on prostheses in film. i am filming in until sight noiselessly of 20. 4 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 pis stories at the 2011 world cup, and you sealant, shopping as there are some 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 accident, i saw an article about you and it motivated me so much room 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
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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 poisoning. linda ange best qualified, her numer minge when there is a seriously injured person lying there. i simply know this fear of lighting, liebman of also the fear of going out in public with her ccsi liliana because other people might look and 10 the to us very close today. they meet and talk openly. like on the very 1st i they miss almost 4 years ago. hi amie. oh, hello, david. well, how you doing my friend? yeah. i'm well and you know, i saw the last training. yes. i see vo ami is still in pine. yeah.
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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 shots on and stuff and then you wake up and laugh. yeah, yes, i wake up and laugh. i never really sleep that deep london magnet does it, and then i realize i'm cramping up again and getting these pain. still. jesus deserves map sticker because especially in my leg stanza hides. i'm in a bind stanford in manhattan. my amsterdam schedule miss swell out and are very tennis man, and is there an responded on to it so physically exhausting me, kathy thought tegan is, is this your our it's also the case that you're always trying out something new with your prostheses. you've got a stamped 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,
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fun fun in my heart. just garnish me. 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, so they get used to it. and then believe me, it will also get better at night. the does better than not it's with conversations just like this. but david keeps hope to victims. ringback ringback hm, the dallas associate names, let our job i as a lifesaver 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 with prostheses goes on, thus live mid forties, a vice i good that life with prostheses can work thus or the i, it's hard that every day life can be solved with prostheses just in
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a different way. mm hm. 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. finances i'm isn't was i would i have to try again for them to fight my depression, being minded, certainly a dyna then do you children give you strength or, or does it take more strength to be strong enough? starts as on my my r o. in them times they give me strength venture, but sometimes i wish i wasn't there right now. i fuck it's the cotton 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
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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 in minutes, i do have all shown in my time. i've already seen a few situations where the person after the accident didn't make it. and so suicide is the only way out in verbs, mod. i've also mic asean, on the 1st time, something like this happened yesterday. i wondered if i had done something wrong africa, which was fine if i could have talked to the person in a better way, mid mid, mid immune english bank after that story. i just had to cry and cry was, i thought it was all just more than i could handle. it was awfully before does. what the 35 year old needs is someone who will listen to him. he recharges his batteries with the small family, his greatest happiness, which is a young man, he thought no longer possible after his emergency operation. amelia's guns
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classroom miss family is clearly an anchor for me. especially after a very emotional conversation with a new amputee at the hospital, which i'm putting in car when i come home i was, my daughter is beaming at me. does time mareike? is that like? and i can switch off coming up child. wow. well, the 2 had been together for almost 4 years. seeing the positive in his jeans, says monica moto. and as i know her misquote, 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 whole muzzle mid woods. i got the guy in order to publish my mind for me and then today i have my own family globally and i'm just happy with the sporting success.
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i've had him sport, let him in 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 lately. oh da zagat, of course it was a bigger one. fire mish does. it was certainly a detour on amazon and asked us, but i no longer need my feet make law for the rest of my life. when a few so on human, pull her film and vitality. not everyone can become will champion, liked of it better. at this story shows that an amputation does not mean the end. it can be an opportunity. but this requires people like duffy data who stand next to amputees with all of them. what ah,
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william had a bank on it, gonzalez was i and was how, you know, if i had known that the boat would be that small, i never would have gone on the trail. i would not have put myself and my parents in that danger. you thought it was a theme of a little thought he was leave who love one centreville hospital on the liberty to give him i had a serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there. but it went to him, go to the you want to know their story in full migrant clarified and reliable information for my grants. the amount of cost is increasing every year, many im gonna working on lunch with fairly holiday destinations and drowning in plastic white. we rewind and happy to look at the call with every year europe exports over 1000000
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tons of plastic with. is there another way? after all, the environment isn't to recyclable. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah, ah hm. in july of last year, there was mud here everywhere. the all valley in western germany was hit by devastating flooding. in just a matter of days, a unique 8 campaign was launched. the group syrian volunteers in germany put a coal out in arabic for extra support. and hundreds of syrians from across germany answered the call to help flood victims jamiria fowls of the door. we have more
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experience than germans when it comes to disasters and war ally, we've been through it all and survived. and so we're better equipped to deal with it than many who haven't yet faced these things often turn on a home. in cincy nestled in the all valley, a group of syrians pitched in for months. they formed bonds with the flood victims . and now some of these help is moving to the valley themselves. hm. and as i le cut is moving to sensation today, or at least partially until he finishes his business degree in sa book. and he's a co founder of syrian volunteers in germany and has yet to visit his new home. he just knows his friend abdulla already lives there.

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