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say i do a dream that took decades to become reality. ah . and on that so for now sports life has an incredible story for you. after the break, johnny grata is a student and a sofa who doctors say shouldn't even be able to walk, can find out how he does it after a short break. if you need more news, go to our website to be found at d. w dot com. the other option is to follow up on twitter or instagram handle you need. he's at the w news on anthony howard in berlin from the team here. thanks for watching. with every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips one day in the footsteps of the rigby hormone. i'm in your northern most count
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ah, ah, this is johnny. when he was told, he would never be able to walk since birth. he's lived with extreme muscular spasms . he wants to be accepted as an athlete and a sports student. ah, we go back to the one that he is supported by a handful of carers, 16 hours a day. i really know johnny is in a constant fight against bureaucratic hurdles and exclusion. sports is his way to really stress as cabella here when it comes to my body and my disability sports is my elixir of life without it's, i wouldn't be able to lead an independent life because i wouldn't be able to move properly. and i mean, and that's why sports is my medicine, my only form of medicine,
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and i wanted to stay that way when is not needed. so i was also blind as a veto, 4th for them to come in. how i came to study sports is actually a funny story. i wanted to study medicine to go into my own field of treatment, but couldn't do that because of the practical year of yours. and then my former physiotherapists said to me, why don't you study something where you can implement your training, the sport to my, my 1st reaction was, he's off his rocker. so i asked, are you going to run the 3000 meters for me in the aptitude test or what do they felt like it was suspended? i told them in, on, among men of dicey festival, when, if i have the severest form of this disability with a strong focus on my legs because of this, i normally shouldn't be able to sit or even walk or eat by myself like that on one another. fight today, johnny's usual swimming pool is ocoee. ah,
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that's why it had to settle for the cold basin. the cold water can be problematic and makes his muscles cramped even more to keep warm. he has to power through from the stuff he can only rely on his arms while swimming because his legs are partially paralyzed. johnny has a rigorous training regime. on average, he spends 4 hours per day working out. ah, johnny doesn't just swim. he's a bit of
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a devil and has tons of crazy stuff. ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, as well, i actually got the idea of jumping off the 7 and a half me to towel by chance as a to buy. ah, i was angry that people don't treat me like a normal person, even people that of 9 me for a long time lieutenant. ah, ah. oh, not too bad man. of course some things might be nervous, but am i really scared? something could happen, but i could also just fall over on the street and hit my head.
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ah, as of anything if i think about my fears? no, i'm not scared. i just try things out and see whether they work out on notice with off to swimming. if johnny has a quick chat with one of his favorite professors to discuss his studies and future athletic going, i gotta provides a, would yon border busy? doesn't it? their hands knocked him eventually couldn't do better than a big one. me this one then hutch, bottom of them is when we haven't spent one because that's an example like numbers ending up in nasa is class. he has also the there it fits on point one of the doesn't is enough. as of god give is always alpha challenge on top of the things i think with johnny is not that
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optimistic about the situation. disable people face at gemini university's one, given some likelihood of why they have to. sometimes i get the feeling that the sports universities, the most important thing is the performance of the athletes and, and the way you are perceived there relates to the amounts of metals you win. and that's why i have the feeling a wheelchair. it doesn't fit in to the image of a sports university. that's no one's going. nissan was movement of what was one of us. when confronted with johnny's views, the head of the university's disability office has a different opinion which the dorothea, i definitely regret and strongly disagree with this statement of nina, orders me from my perspective, it was never important. if someone brings back a metal or not in them and guns windows, if we take a look at the 20 to 30 students at our university with challenging disabilities on gal recess, i don't think any of them will say. i'm only welcome here because i might win a metal some dang kong eyes and bulletin mit. i think they'll say we're allowed to
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study here like everyone else. and we are judged by the same criteria with which we are being treated equally. austin, as vivian gleiss. ah, the artist bonded with one of the most challenging exercises for johnny is walking a few times a week. he trains to one hour without crutches to counter the muscular imbalances in his limbs. he has developed his own methods. this with its deficiency filtering into it gets tightened bit by bit and pulls my back straight so i can walk upright on the treadmill of nathan to look. ah, i johnny doesn't see himself as a regular part of the student body. he
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believes that sometimes the other students have problems treating him normally. he feels left out. hey, when the guy let me pull it when they come to realize he feels rental to me. this molina thing, unless i'm quite independent yet still i am often left behind and along with all the training i need to do, it's a key reason that makes me really sad and it's mentally quite tough to process your mother was except and until especially if it's just you and your care is for so many years stuff of homelessness kept. my advantage is that i have my sports and that is my outlet from my frustration, my and maintaining, until i journey also struggles with every day situations. even in germany, being in
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a wheel chair means encountering many obstacles. ah, that's kind of lucy, when i was on site and was given me i my own brand of manhattan c as going in milan. this is later on when done with an a foreign launch to undergo twana unpacking like a yep. good enough to know what may seem like a minor inconvenience can amounts were detail of several stocks and a huge delay. ah no, i mean it all to done name is already to have a to live more or less independent life. johnny requires physical assistance, but around the clock care is expensive. normally the states will thirty's pay for
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the last 5 months. johnny hasn't received any money and had to finance everything out of his own pocket. almost 40000 euros. for poor. live with his own with. 03 different state authorities of fighting of a who is financially responsible for johnny. they can walk me down slightly. why fight to live a self determined life? yet in the end, i am the one suffering along with my carrier. so hopefully i have to pay in advance and no one cares how i do it always does maha. when asked to comment on the delay the council now responsible for johnny sites, procedural errors and question, his monthly budget. ah, despite all the odds, johnny continues to fight against his own body and all the obstacles in his way to counter the inward rotation of his left knee. johnny need someone to help and coordinate his movements. his partially paralyzed legs need weights to feel the
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impact of his feet on the treadmill because of a muscle tension in his body. everything he does burns at least twice as many calories as a person without his disability shop. johnny is unique. most people with his condition wouldn't even dream of doing the things he does without his training. he would not be able to walk, swim or do any other things. so sports remains his only therapy. and we know it's michael either. i don't train at all, and my physic deteriorates to such an extent that i dropped into the category i'm supposed to belong in combat. meaning everything will be paid for even the 20 me to cab, right to university, and or i do everything in my power to improve my physique. and in theory,
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save the government some money. instead, they reduce my installments, even though i only want to live a self determined life and with if johnny loses his fitness, he loses his freedom. he has more plans and goals he wants to fulfill. he wants to start his own business, designing sportswear, and become a motivational coach. he wants to climb sugarloaf mountain in brazil, and if surfing ever becomes a paralympic sport, he'll do anything to take papa ah. as of digney, there is no impulse to both and if it doesn't what i need to find a way of it takes a long time before i accept something doesn't work. if you type again, ah,
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