I once asked a woman I was interviewing for a job to explain her idea of stress. 'My son was in an accident when he was 12,' she said, 'and he's paralysed from the waist down.'
I have never forgotten that woman's words. Her son went on to successfully compete in the Paralympics , no doubt with his mother's encouragement ringing in his ears.
Today we hear that a record 2.2 million seats have already been sold for the Paralympic Games. At the opening ceremony on August 29, athletes now leaving the Olympics will be replaced by 4,200 Paralympians, all of them with success stories of their own.
However loud we cheered for our home-grown medalists we should get ready to cheer a little louder for these fearless athletes who have never known the meaning of the word 'can't.'
'Thanks for the warm-up,' joked one Paralympian on the last day of the Games. 'Now for the real thing.'
I have never forgotten that woman's words. Her son went on to successfully compete in the Paralympics , no doubt with his mother's encouragement ringing in his ears.
Today we hear that a record 2.2 million seats have already been sold for the Paralympic Games. At the opening ceremony on August 29, athletes now leaving the Olympics will be replaced by 4,200 Paralympians, all of them with success stories of their own.
However loud we cheered for our home-grown medalists we should get ready to cheer a little louder for these fearless athletes who have never known the meaning of the word 'can't.'
'Thanks for the warm-up,' joked one Paralympian on the last day of the Games. 'Now for the real thing.'
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