Sports, even at the inter-barangay level, is hard enough even for a non-disabled person. Imagine not having an arm, yet competing in the men’s 50-meter butterfly, no legs and going for a three-point shot, or sightless but running the 100-meter dash.
Those are just three of the 22 individual and team sports at the 2024 Paris Paralympics Games, where Paralympians worldwide competed in 549 medal events.
In 2019, he auctioned off his 2016 gold medal to help fund his neighbor’s daughter’s cancer treatment. If that’s not a hero, I don’t know what is.Pongsakorn Paeyo from Thailand was born with polio and lost his dad when he was two years old. His mom worked as a farmhand to earn a living as the family’s primary breadwinner. In college, he was not given any preferential treatment and had to crawl to classrooms in his building.
To put it in perspective, she competes in the 40-kilogram category but bench presses over 220 pounds. She leads the cause for greater accessibility for differently-abled individuals.
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