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Speaker 1: Jam mission with joon Z and Amanda your Paralympics. I

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Speaker 1: was watching a bit of that on a weekend. We're

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Speaker 1: doing we're doing really well. Did you see Madison de

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Speaker 1: Rosario she wins the eight hundred meters T fifty three

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Speaker 1: on the with the wheelchairs. Yeah, so quick on those

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Speaker 1: wood chairs and they do a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: wheel stand to start off, and I think the tactic

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Speaker 1: would be to keep your front wheel down, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 1: But the strength, it's amazing. Imagine the upper body strength

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Speaker 1: to do that. I think we're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: to Kurt Firmley sometime this week, and you know that's

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Speaker 1: that's his event too, isn't it? Just that strength is extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: We are coming eighth on the in the tally. That's

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Speaker 1: pretty good, and so there are some amazing stories where

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Speaker 1: we're who's in front of us? I'll tell you Number

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Speaker 1: one is China, of course, Great Britain, United States, the RPC,

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Speaker 1: which is the unaffiliated Russians, Ukraine, Brazil as a Bojana,

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Speaker 1: seventh as a Bijan. Why they say good, don't know.

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Speaker 1: And we're eighth. I was reading a story of an

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Speaker 1: American paralympian. Her name is Haven Shepherd. She's competing in

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Speaker 1: the swimming in Tokyo. Her story is amazing. She's now eighteen.

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Speaker 1: When she was a baby in Vietnam, her father tried

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Speaker 1: to kill the family with a suicide bomb. She the

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Speaker 1: dad and the mom were having extramarital affairs, and the

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Speaker 1: father thought, the only way we can get through this

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Speaker 1: is oldest blow everybody up, So he strapped a bomb

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Speaker 1: to himself. He was having an affair, and the mom was,

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Speaker 1: I think so, So he s dropped a bomb to himself.

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Speaker 1: He's strapped a bomb to his wife and he was

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Speaker 1: holding his eighteen How old was she at the time.

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Speaker 1: Let's have a look here. She was just pretty much

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Speaker 1: a new she was sixteen months old. Sixteen months old,

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Speaker 1: and when the bomb went off, she was blown clear.

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Speaker 1: She's lost both legs below the knee, but she suffered

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Speaker 1: devastating burns, injuries and blood loss. But as I said,

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Speaker 1: she was thrown from his arms and survived. She was

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Speaker 1: rushed to a hospital where they had to take shrapnel

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Speaker 1: out of her skull. All the you know, lost her legs.

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Speaker 1: As I said, strangers paid for her medical care. Her

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Speaker 1: grand parents were so poor they couldn't look after it.

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Speaker 1: So she was adopted by an American family, Rob and

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Speaker 1: Shelley Shepherd. So she joined the family and they were

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Speaker 1: older brothers and sisters who were all sports mad, so

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Speaker 1: she just joined in everything. And as she said, she's

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Speaker 1: a great example, she says of finding beauty from the ashes.

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Speaker 1: She bears no resentment to her earlier years, and she

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Speaker 1: said she's racing her first race in Tokyo. She said,

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Speaker 1: the truth is for me, the whole experience isn't about

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Speaker 1: getting a place in the finals, but the journey I

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Speaker 1: took to get here. I could have spent the last

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Speaker 1: six years of my life sitting because it's easier than walking,

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Speaker 1: or complaining, because it's easier than being grateful, or quitting,

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Speaker 1: because it's easier than continuing. But I didn't. I decided

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Speaker 1: to keep moving And for today, I'm excited about where

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Speaker 1: it's led me. Remember, if you can't walk, if you

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Speaker 1: can't run, walk, if you can't walk, crawl, if you

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Speaker 1: can't crawl, or hate to run, swim, But no matter what,

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Speaker 1: move And this is the great thing about the Paralympics.

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Speaker 1: There's a thousand stories of incredible journeys like this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what an amazing time, amazing story, isn't it. And you're

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Speaker 1: just and you think about yourself. You've got your arms,

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Speaker 1: your legs. You can see you're cranky because you're in lockdown.

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Speaker 1: You read this story and you go, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm allowed out an hour a day? Why did I

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Speaker 1: go and move? How about a cup of reality your mofos?

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Speaker 1: What's another way of phrasing it? That wasn't the headline

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Speaker 1: from what I could see, but nice Jonesy and Amanda's