tv Sports Life Deutsche Welle December 17, 2023 9:15pm-9:31pm CET
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a message from the evidence team and all that will be an update of the hours of next a sports life. talking to a woman who lost her leg in a motorcycle accident is now hoping to become twan was best quest software. a short break. i'm gab office and fill in for me on the team next to the thursday. know, understand can have a think like the vice president. do you have any news on instagram and follow up? sometimes a seed is of all you need to allow the big ideas to grow or to bring an environmental conservation to wife with learning passed by
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a global ideas. we will show you how climate change and environmental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing, download it now for the sake of i am floating on you and at the age of $21.00, i had a motorcycle accident looking at what had appeared to be a simple to be on february, the fracture developed into gang green due to medical negligence and my left leg had to be amputated. thanksgiving christmas the 3 months and $26.00 operations. later i left the hospital and decided to embrace the 2nd chance at life. i was given thanks to the horse i recovered physically and emotionally. and since then,
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i thought to fulfill my live stream of competing at the paralympic games and put my model into practice, which is that limits are only in our head, the espinoza, switched on power dresses, right? a who lives with her 10 year old son, noah in panama. and i do like town by the beach and south west spain. as a young girl, losing a leg was a major set back. and after a year of tough therapy, florida met a woman who officer a chance to write again. impulses became a key component of her rehab. she told me, well, why don't we try it? i think i told you it would be tricky since you mount the horse from the left side and i'm missing my left leg. and one day i went, we tried putting a chair on the other side. the truth is that it was a mess for me to get up there, and that's how it all started. and so i decided to help her and she would give me classes. so i cleaned the stables and helped her clean the horses all on one leg
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because they did not have a prosthesis get out of it. so the 1st year i was always on crutches. it was good because it forced me out of the house and out of my comfort zone, people asked, how are you going to do it on one leg? you can clean stables and horses on one leg. and if you really want something, you can do it right now. i get on the horse from the official side wearing my prosthesis. the company, the power dress. ours is a technical support with a ride that has 5 elements to get the horse to follow the instructions. the voice and the 2 arms and legs, even though florida is missing one element, she follows a coach has guidance and managers to accurately control whole stuff on your own. go to the romano, instead of the legal or the they're gonna be put into that are coming to the model . the i s a loaner also challenges himself to practice other sports in which normally the lack of it like would be an obstacle to often goes
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climbing with the friends common from the line or the biggest challenge of my left foot. because obviously when i planted, i don't know exactly where it is. i don't know if it has some grid or could slip, it's kind of a metaphor, right? right? or you can climb, you're not sure, but you have to trust the little boy. then you have a subordinate the, then i leave my left foot dangling in the air as a counter wait. because if i don't have a very secure hold, i'm falling down in the end, which means you have to trust a little that you can do it. and the limiting factor is your head, because there are many moments where i am limited. when i say, come on, let's do it. we what we gotta do to put in for like for example here, i don't have a left that holds, but i'll just go for it in quite a minute. if i follow is that a role and i must land on my right leg. just like when i get off the horse, you have any impact on that leg is terrible because i have no left joint and it's very unstable. i'm very little is left of the leg for breakfast. i have a piece of to be alive. yeah. but that's what it is fractured the 3 times, and it's not suitable for impact. the equestrian sports are expensive to cover
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equipment costs. florida works as a model and photo shoots for sponsors. at the same time, she is a role model for inclusion and diversity. if it wasn't for these collaborations, i couldn't do it. i'm doing that because i can't afford it. practically all the material i have is sponsored and i try to help them in my own way, was by letting them use my image and doing photo sessions. and those who sent in the photo and she's very brave to the photography, helps me a lot. put a good deal. what do you like it? because initially i didn't like it, it scared me and i was very ashamed for my body. but it made me see that there are many types of beauty and i feel pretty in the photos. the photos are always well received and there are many people who write to me. so they tell me they'd like to do it to whatever embarrass somebody some more. they tell me it's helping us to see it. it's better to be visible rather than stay hidden at home with the attendance across the company. the thing i have a place in this society, an admission,
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and i think it's a very nice purpose to be able to help others. and i love it. i see her without insecurities of other natural beauty or desire to live. and i like being able to help her with it. i especially like that strength because she's the mother who's busy all day. still asking yourself what more she can do her job. the horse guy just sense uncle, because that's always the problem. when you want to do everything for him, you always want to do everything. sometimes she can't do it and sometimes she's strong, and other times she collapses and says, i can't do it life and it's rare, but it does happen. well, yeah, i mean, only like once it's too much. there are those moments because we're all human. some we both are rare, but she loves to. and then with the sometimes the pressure was too great. florida has a marketing job as a model, a single mother and the top power athletes pursuing qualification to the paralympics and a sports that requires a great deal of commitment. bought as carmen says, florida loves the challenge. temperature like this,
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i always go with everything. everything was against us, no money, no horse, nothing you know saddles. and here i am competing with a horse with the saddle. so i keep going through not to say the other. i trained 6 days a week and the afternoon i'm with my son sort of the house groceries, my online job, 2 hours minimum every day of social networks promoting brands uploading content. i can't get more with the circumstances. i have. i have a son by a job. i have a house and i'm alone. so then i'm going to belgium to compete and my mother is coming over from switzerland to take care of my son for 10 days. i will bring my son along for 10 days and a truck is going for the competing is the easiest. it's everything else behind it. that's a lot. it's a lot as much. florida helps amputees in an online support group and use a social media to promote the acceptance of different body types. wait is a long time to share a special video to sign up for that. this might be the toughest post i've ever shared, but i'm sharing the video i made for my son, video play. so, but i'm,
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you know, i'm at a certain age. i realize people were looking at me because i was different that and that's and also i disguise myself, thompson and young. i mean, i gave you the name and we did little plays with the disguise, done and told funny stories that i talked about how people react it. and the same thing either because it was a way of getting over that little trauma. but because there was a moment where he felt the tackle around, he took it badly that people were looking at me that i said at the moment we might see that video was 1st made for him. and i've never published it or shown it to anyone as it gets here. we're going to expose ourselves completely and i feel completely naked. it might be more scary for me to show my stuff then to show my naked body. ok. antoinette a minute and you're going to push me into 2nd. so here it is. all that's left is to share it. flow to share the video even though it scares how competitive sharon can look at the last thing away. the pain, i've recorded this video a few years ago when know i started to realize that i was a different mazda service, that i knew that he saw that through the way other people looked at me. but i can't
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teach my son, you have to be brave if i don't lead by example. and so today i'd be everything for a better and more inclusive and warm, pathetic world. and i dedicated to my son. thank you for always being so brave. and i love you can the time has come, florida is in madrid with doubts on your own to compete at the 2nd to full qualifying events for the paralympics, competition days, a highly demanding the young have to do with the team because as long hours, i'm here all day and you don't sleep much when you get up very early. there's stress and physical fatigue because i'm also not used to writing the force twice in one day to prepare everything, assemble and disassembled twice. i have to clean the material. now i'm here from 7 am to 8 pm to athletics. these events are also an opportunity for florida to meet and engage with sponsors in madrid. flor to meet sandra,
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who represents the brand. she models for an exchange for sponsoring her request stream outfits quicker. more just to i wanted to collaborate with her because i love her story and she's a fighter. i contacted brands and asked them if they would be interested at the time. they were fascinated, you know, and they didn't understand why they didn't have any pair of questions yet. and when they saw her, they said, go ahead. i mean, we don't use her as a model for people with disabilities. know for us, she's a model underwriter, like any other writer, indian, what people get is that she has had a blow in life and has risen up to it. and she has a dream and goes for it. every morning she gets up with that cool. you're good, okay. i think this is a life lesson. i really couldn't compete with those sponsors because i don't have the financial means or the possibility. so this is a project that benefits all of us. yeah. you know, if they're not here, i might have the best horse and skills, but i can't go up and compete with the name. i don't understand why there aren't more responses or just let because if you're a rider, you know how difficult it is. and on top of it, you're missing a leg. i think it's amazing. okay. yep. and what she achieves is really spectacular
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. and one time because he's here right. and she's much better than a writer with 2 legs and arms. florida headed to the hotel to take a break and review the exercise one last time. anyone on a physical level for me it's complicated because there's a lot of ground to cover for them. these are very large facilities. i usually walk about 20 to 30 kilometers in a competition weekend. now i'll take off my prosthetic legs, rest a little, relax on it, and think about the course i'll compete in that 5 pm. those are the letters that are in the track at each letter you have to do an exercise. the judges will score you not only on the exercise itself, but also the accuracy and see, but some of them, a less upkeep of the now slaughter begins. the competition, the
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ball that opinion she finishes good. it's a good results, but not enough to secure a place at the paralympics. she will have to score higher. the remaining 2 events back home florida meets up with carmen. and let's see for another photo shoot. this time the concept is promoting, told her in some acceptance. if i was over here today to do a photo session with lucille, the photographer, and carmen, the makeup artist today we have chosen at the end can to guess which is a japanese art. when the, when a ceramic object breaks the pieces that are good back on and decorated with gold, it symbolizes rebirth. because if something breaks, it doesn't mean that it can't have a 2nd life. it can be even more beautiful through the sessions we do together because we try to make another type of beta visible thing. we think it's important for people to feel a little better. just because someone has some kind of physical disability or an issue with their body, they can still show it, feel good and do something beautiful. but the, you know,
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and happiness in japanese can. so the means to repair with gold and a message that celebrates the history of each object, emphasizing the fractures instead of hiding them from this gives a new life to the peace transforming it into an object even more beautiful than the original. here we symbolize resurgence as reverse and said we want to show the world that there is no one single type of beauty. no reason, don't forget that if one day you break, you have the opportunity to read, compose yourself into a more beautiful and stronger being the
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