twenty fourteen winter olympic and paralympic games. more than thirty years ago before the nine hundred eighty summer olympic games in moscow so he was dorothy's refused to host the paralympics. the organizing committee explained that the country was not ready for such an event. for its. just the really still big. state slopes only actually it's one of those i mean if you don't have the right skills you would never be able to get to the top. is going to give me the push. was born in sochi and has lived there all his life thirteen years ago the

successful entrepreneur was injured while he was inspecting a construction site. debris from a building collapsed on him damaging his spine. because of the lack of an elevator inns apartment block it was a facsimile trapped in his fourth floor apartment for eighteen months. before that i didn't know anything about disabled people i was totally unaware of how they lived and this is that when i became disabled myself i realized how difficult it was almost no wheelchair. and i felt that some make the world a better place i wanted to make it accessible for everyone. in only a few years because become a famous athlete and public figure when his hometown was awarded the winter olympics was consulted on how to make the city accessible to the disabled. come on come on let me come on you can do it.

in my early teens i did not understand people i was afraid of something and ashamed of my situation of the fact i was in a wheelchair people felt sorry for me saying oh what a poor boy got on my nerves so i didn't feel that way i had a hard time going outside but when i began doing sports my life changed completely our society has also changed. this is going to be my began just down the list a bar at the same time. as for dance music but i dance less as i was often busy lifting weights with dancing the result depends on both partners my partner and i

had an ideal relationship because a couple should be one whole. business i've always liked sports where you are responsible for yourself like with weights with stone if you feel to lift something it's your fault clement didn't fall in love with weightlifting at first sight the real excitement only came after a few victories at several championships. last at the paralympic games in london he was among the contenders for the gold medal. to get it the only did just one more attempt and one more to. say yes most of them i know that he could do even better he just needs a little more time and he has this time and he's only twenty now and these were his

first paralympic games you made himself known after taking third place it's very good and so was i like to tell him your day will come to regret it but i thought it would have mattered. one maria's hard a month before the olympics but he was a training camp when he saw maria at a cafe he made the first move. i saw him push all the chairs out of his way to get to where i was sitting with his first question was why are you looking at me and smiling i stared at him as i did not know what to say it was so in most memorable even though he's only twenty he's much more mature than other guys is far above his age in terms of intelligence and communication i'm proud of him but i see him on the news they rush to the t.v. and stand still in front of the screen.

play by the same rules in everyday life come on we're living when we have the support of others is crucial. alex tickle nichols was the first to organize a russian sports an art festival in sochi for the disabled he wanted to show that there are no limits and that any of them could participate in the games despite his age i like wants to join the national curling team and take part in the twenty four team paralympics those doubles when we meet each other some seventy years ago we

met at the first combine games you were very young there are remember how tenacious you were your way even competed against each other. i likes to call nick of met his love on a dating website a year ago ladies they came to sochi and now she helps them organize championships for people with disabilities. we knew each other for just a couple of weeks but it felt like we had known each other for a fairly long time and that there really was good fortune this brought us together . were. the two of us are very much alike all over five hundred the way we like to live. with them so we really don't bother each other it's all in the. it's. very. very small you see this. was a new ball of treatment and i never had the feeling that we had just met and that i just came here when my friends asked me if i'd. i say that i didn't have to get

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is easy to. believe. before he turned seventeen it was no different to most boys he loved me and was keen on technology his passion for cars prompted parents to give him

a motorcycle as the president of a road accident which he miraculously survived changed his life forever after both his legs were amputated it took him two years to start his life until. he could you have to carry on living despite the circumstances the most and of course you may vegetate home all the time but i'd rather set a goal and reach out for it. so what if i am disabled a big deal but i'm proud of who i am. ten years after the accident people became a four time champion of the vancouver paralympics he won four golds in oneself. when he realized he had no legs he started smashing all the equipment in the room

he was hysterical the next day came to visit him he looked at me with cheers flew down his face and he said you will now abandon me. that was the first thing he said which was when we began fighting for the life i wanted to show him that we needed him so i told him you have your hands and your legs are not that. good. at first eric's parents were afraid to leave me at home alone and he was too shy to go outside he put on thirty five kilos. it took me two years to rethink my life but i had to learn how to eat by myself to go to the bathroom at seventeen i was just like a little baby all over again when you were you know it was very hard to carry on every day i had to improve but then little by little i learned to help my parents

skip dinner meet them in the evening and so forth. when protests say he started doing his exercises he developed a diet of cottage cheese and saw his dishes well. sometimes i found sewing for him and added a little but that he could tell it was there and refused to eat it do you weightlifting swimming. played every possible sport but speed was still is greatest passion after one year of training he became the champion of russia in wheelchair racing that very winter he began to ski for the first time. i love the atmosphere i have been staying at home all the time but then i came out and saw the people in the world when i began to win them attract attention it was addictive he trained every day even in the little time he had at home he barely had time to see if family. alone. i've missed so much.

let's play. just look it's very hard to stay without him especially when i see how the kids miss their deadline you know our daughter misses him the most recent she needs her dad our son misses him too but he often tells him that he should stop training so much and come home. when this future why dilemma before the car accident they were in the same group of friends as teenagers but they started going after iraq returned from his first paralympics. i was trying to convince him not to do it. there were many healthy men and that he would

find his soulmate on that team members but she said she loved him as i told her that if she hurt him she would have to deal with me. but she found that he was serious. charged me with his positive energy and i wanted to talk to him more and more since i got somewhat addicted to him he's the kind of person who gets things done is never complained about life about being disabled he has never said life is over for him he simply lives and enjoys just like. their son i knew or was born two years before his triumph at the vancouver paralympics. their daughter was born after his victory we got yeah she's now two her brothers four unfortunately their father has not been there for any of their birthday parties. and one two three.

mama. but her fingers. into the deep. and with you. it's hard for erik every time he asked to leave home but he understands that will be more difficult to defend his title at the twenty fourteen olympics. than it was to win it for the first time. so how did i do. you a fifth before you must come second to the semifinals. and a final. just. you'll be fighting for medals green. every year more young and strong contenders take part working out pushes the limit of human potential and can affect the health of your beach my shoulders are sore. this year the right one has started leaking at the joints. it's been bolder me all season. recently eric has become interested not only in sports but also in

political races a year ago he was elected deputy in the city council of his hometown you can't do sports forever but life goes on my sporting career will eventually end so i have to find something else. so i reached my peak in sports but i've achieved everything i could i go to the very top i've become the world champion i won world cups and international competitions i no longer have a passion or desire now i think about my family and children. yes so are we going to the kid center all right let's go after the kindergarten institutions for disabled children frequently invite people. he knows how much money and effort is needed to make these kids normal members of society.

hello my ria. maria you overvote was raised in an orphanage. that hello maria little snow maiden her mother abandoned maria when doctors told her that her child was unlikely to survive and if she did she wouldn't be able to walk talk or hear normally and or mental development would be severely impaired. at the age of twenty marie ova became a champion of the winter paralympic games in vancouver winning two golds and won silver in biathlon and cross-country skiing. why did they give you. do you know why first place because you were the first. when she took part in russian championships she was always very upset if she was not an order to medal she cried really hard do you want a new mad though very much she does. limps became maria's teacher of the age of

seven the girls transferred from an orphanage to a special boarding school. and has been by maria's side since our first steps into sports taking her to all the training camps and competitions the teacher became a mother to the girl even though she was only twenty then. you know beautiful am i to you. i don't know why do you think. oh we're friends but we're really good friends. maria was lucky she was selected for the republic of commies national team maria has always stood out from the crowd she was a very active and sociable child but when serious training sessions began doctors strongly recommended that she should not get involved in professional sports she was born with no joints in her legs which leads to poor blood circulation so she could suffer serious health issues. i examined her almost every day i took her

temperature and if there was any increase be immediately carried out medical tests for the first million years we were training for results our goal was just to make a solid foundation we wanted her to become strong. one year before the vancouver paralympics the coach just started to increase training they worked out six days a week for eight hours at a time alexander worked with maria on the ski track tiana worked with her on shooting skills she was with the young athlete twenty four hours a day when she looked very bad i'm sorry let's go in ski come on come on. after maria of us triumph at the olympics the story of the champion who was raised in an orphanage became known in practically every russian household. as welcome russia's flight and joy may really be a lympics champion. when maria came

back from canada there was a surprise waiting for her at home. her biological mother wanted to see her. there's maria. in the course camera told journalists that she was the one who abandoned maria twenty years ago. with something it's my fault i was young and stupid when i don't know the mother and daughter had an on camera meeting. i mean it's. these look at. these don't shake your head. you simply can't understand a person with bandits who child immediately after birth and then eighteen years later turns up when his child has practically become a world star achieved everything she wanted on her role and any advance she

appeared outrageous. so the girls grew up without just never seem to. even though she's a biological mother i think it's inappropriate to act this way if the rear was around ten years old maybe then she might have responded differently. after the olympics maria moved from the boarding school to an apartment of her own even though she cannot take care of herself that's why her closest friend is always with her. career has to win many more competitions turn her right participate in the twenty fourteen winter olympics. for the time being does not want to talk or meet with her biological mother. don't discuss this look good do you love. me do you love. news no i don't know how you know you're asking me. in everyday life she may say she loves me even if i don't ask her about it she

says i love you and goes away though we address all these things herself at home we learn to embroider hanes go learn different things. play. them for a learn and. remember. murray overvote was born after the collapse of the soviet union in a new country more open to developing opportunities. but some challenges still remain. bumpy would have to be twice as strong as other people it's hard for the disabled in russia we move forward little by little showing what we are capable of it's good they've noticed our sporting achievements it all started when we won and turin guber they realized that the sable people are reality.

now the era of three is preparing for his third paralympic games he wants the winter olympics in sochi to crown the end of his sporting career and signal the start of a new life. when you come back daddy. goodbye darlings. he will have to prove many times that people with disabilities actually have unlimited abilities. they can build careers like everyone else have happy families and become world champions. it's.

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