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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest has gone through more in one lifetime

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Speaker 2: than most of us will ever have to endure. And

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Speaker 2: what a champion. He lost his leg when he was

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Speaker 2: just nine years old. He survived cancer three times, but

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Speaker 2: Michael Milton is proof that nothing will stop him. He's

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Speaker 2: become one of the most decorated alpine skiers in Paralympic history.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow he's heading off to prepare well the next Winter

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Speaker 2: Games in February. They're in the Beautiful was it? Malana

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Speaker 2: Kutina Beausuly Michael joins us Now.

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Speaker 3: Hi Michael, good morning guys.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the show.

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Speaker 4: We were just talking about your Danhill ski record at

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Speaker 4: two hundred and thirteen kilometers per hour.

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Speaker 1: Is that for someone with one leg or is that

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Speaker 1: for everyone?

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Speaker 3: That's an open world record for an athlete with disability,

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Speaker 3: a world record for athletic disability, and an open Australian record,

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Speaker 3: So Australia's fast as seven scire.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Michael, that sounds terrifying to me. Is it ever

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Speaker 2: scary for you?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah, of course He's standing at a time for

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Speaker 3: this big snow covered mountain and it's nearly vertical and

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Speaker 3: you know you're going faster than you've ever been before. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: It's one of the key skills of skiing at that

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Speaker 3: speed is to be able to take that fear and

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Speaker 3: lock it into the back of the mind. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: definitely unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: When you were nine and you lost your leg, was

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Speaker 2: it sport that got you through? How did you find

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Speaker 2: your way through? That's a tough thing for a nine

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Speaker 2: year old.

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Speaker 3: Definitely tough for a nine year old. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I think the adaptability of being that age is a

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Speaker 3: real positive. But certainly, I mean skiing had a big

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Speaker 3: part of it for me because it was one of

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Speaker 3: the first questions I asked when they said we're going

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Speaker 3: to have to take your leg off, I'm like, well, well,

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Speaker 3: I'm still be aboule to go skiing. And it was

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Speaker 3: a long time ago. So my parents brought me a

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Speaker 3: VHS videotape a couple of weeks later of a guy

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Speaker 3: on one leg skiing and all through the worst time

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Speaker 3: of cancer. That would be what I would kind of

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Speaker 3: imagine myself doing. And having that dream I think had

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Speaker 3: an immensely positive impact on the outcome of the treatment

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Speaker 3: and of course life since.

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Speaker 1: Then, and you've had more batts with cancer since then.

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Speaker 1: They may it must be seen do.

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Speaker 3: The short straw on this one, because wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: You think, Okay, right here, I've got this. It's extraordinary

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Speaker 1: what you've been through.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely you know, a part of my life.

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Speaker 3: And after three different cancers in with three different locations, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of you know. One of the motivations that

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Speaker 3: has come back to skiing after being out of the

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Speaker 3: parallelmic games for twenty years. I raised my last one

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Speaker 3: in two thousand and six is definitely the fact that

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Speaker 3: after three cancers it's probably more win rather than if

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Speaker 3: for the fourth one, and really just wanting to di

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Speaker 3: squeeze the marrow out of life and do things that

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Speaker 3: are fun and make the most of the time that

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Speaker 3: I have.

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Speaker 2: How tough is it to come back after twenty years

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Speaker 2: out of competitive work like this?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's tough on lots of levels. You know,

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty fortunate that, you know, I had a long

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Speaker 3: competitive career. You know. Skinning in many ways for me

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Speaker 3: is like walking. You strap it on. It just kind

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Speaker 3: of happens without too much thinking. It's a great sport

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Speaker 3: because there's an athletic component definitely, and at fifty two

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Speaker 3: years old, I'm not the same athlete that I was

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Speaker 3: twenty years ago. But there's also that kind of gravity

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Speaker 3: is driving you rather than your muscles and your body.

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Speaker 3: So it is the sort of thing that you can

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Speaker 3: do to a high level to at an older age.

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Speaker 3: So there's definitely physical things like you know, my leg's

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Speaker 3: been sore for months, just getting back into the gym

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Speaker 3: and developing strength again, and then you know, and then

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Speaker 3: of course, particularly at fifty two years old, there there's

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Speaker 3: other things consider in terms of my business and my

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Speaker 3: family and how that all work. So I'm pretty fortunate that,

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Speaker 3: you know, with nineteen and seventeen year old kids can

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Speaker 3: I can bribe them with a trip to Italy and

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Speaker 3: they're pretty happy. But you know, my wife running our

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Speaker 3: business while I'm away. These sorts of things are all

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Speaker 3: just a part of that juggle.

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Speaker 4: Well, Michael, we just wish you all the best, and

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Speaker 4: you're doing it for us. We're just so proud of you, mate.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm doing it for lots of reasons. I'm

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Speaker 3: doing it. You know, I've got to admit that as

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Speaker 3: an athlete, there's always selfish components there and then that's

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Speaker 3: as an athlete in some ways a positive part of things.

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Speaker 3: But you know, thank you very much for the chat

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Speaker 3: and for following my journey.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All the best are you going to do is just

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Speaker 1: go downhill really quick. That's all you have to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you just point it down the hill, don't think.

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Speaker 1: And close your eyes. Maybe not quite, no, Michael Milton.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, we'll be following you, Michael, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Follow Yeah, Michael's journey