September 5, 2024 • 23 mins
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The ZIM podcast Network.
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Split Born and Haley.
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On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Bourne
plunged himself on the couch for a week of Paralympics.
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Fact.
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It's time for Fact of the Day.
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I actually think it might be flitch because before I
had to turn my own microphone on.
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I think so too, because I didn't touch that it
was and I had to go like that. Feel free
to feel free to operate your own microphone at your will.
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Well, that's actually your job because you've got the buttons, and.
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He's responsibilities to fellow employers. I don't want to.
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I don't want to. I don't want that. Write that down,
Write that down, write that down. We're here to bring
this vibe higher, and I bring the scene.
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Blame for anything, hands off, hands off, and the ViBe's right.
I'm doing my job and I don't know. It feels
pretty good. Vibe feels pretty good, right, it's a Paralympics
themed fact of the week this weekday where month?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah h, no further comment. You're for the comment, your honor.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So I found this a fascinating story, a fascinating story.
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The Paralympics.
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People who compete may have sustained a life altering injury.
Perhaps they were born differently abled. This is the story
about Oksana Masters, who was born in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's the year I was born, and Taylor Swift in
the Ukraine. Yeah, three years after the Ukraine. I don't
say that, I do appon it's not and it's not
the Vorn star Ukraine it is. It's not there to
addressed in fletch, the Vorn and the definitive Vorn. Could
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it be a fletch above orn and somehow?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, she was born in Ukraine in nineteen eighty nine,
three years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh yeah, Well that caused a lot of birth defects,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
She was born with severe physical defects okay, because of
the exposure to the radiation, including six toes, webbed fingers,
no thumbs, one legs fifteen centimeters shorter than the other,
missing some Organs. Oh god was as well as I
have been to Chernobyl.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is this going to start? Am I going to go
to kick organs? To go do account on your organst
start growing extra couple of toes.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You know, she was born there, she was in utero,
her mother was in the zone, was in the zone right,
and she was conceived and it affected the the the
fetus she was born. These were some of her birth defects. Right,
You think, what a disadvantage start to life. She won
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a gold medal at the Paralympics across country skiing far out.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What have you done? Have won lots of gold medal?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You were born at the same Yeah, yeah, I know,
but not near Taylor.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Sell out to us, this woman, all these disadvantages go
go middle at the Paralympics, Hailey Sprout TBC.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Hailey Sprout TBC when my life is still just developing.
I'm still extremely young. I'm still on this side of thirty.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Are you going to win anything like you were nominated?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Win a lot?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I've won a lot. Marching doesn't count. The marching isn't
a sport.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
What have you done? Come down?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Really the nerve there?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, come down sight up, give us a smile then.
So she won two of the five medals she won
and twenty eighteen were gold, and went on to compete
at the Paralympics in Tokyo as well, even though they
happened after Memma because of the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, so she was raised in the US and that's
what she competes for because she was adopted by a
woman from the US. This was a big, oh nice
situation in the early nineties that, Yeah, a lot of
babies were adopted from that area to the US. So, yeah,
she said she was missing weight bearing bones in her legs.
Her knees were described as floating. They weren't really supported
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by anything. Hands are web five fingers, no thumbs, don't
have a right bicep. I'm missing some organs, I have
one kidney a. I don't have any enamel on my teeth.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Like, all of it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Can you imagine? All of this is doubt to her.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, So how did she was what she said, the
woman that raised her was number one inspiration in her
life to you know, not let these things hold her back.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So what was it? Cross country skier? Yes? So did they?
How did she adapt the skis? I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I don't know the adaptations or even what because you
know the different the classes like.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
S twenty and see something or rather all stands for
the different abilities.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, the different stuff. That's just and they'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
The Olympics is cool, you watch it, But the Paralympics
and aspiring knowing, Yeah, it does make me think what
have I done?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah? Sometimes the gym and I just say.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
That not to no reason why And you've got.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Everything slight tinge in the knee, too much to overcome,
to get stronger.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And better go home. You'll just laid down and kill over. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
So today's fact of the day is it's time to
drop the excuses because a woman one with birth effects
caused by chernobyl, including six toes, web fingers, no thumbs,
one league shorter than the other, missing some organs, won
a gold medal at the Paralympics across country.
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Scamp plays Faugh and Hailey.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
It's gonna be Paralympic facts all this week is the
Paralympics kick off.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We've got two silvers and a bronze already.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Yeah.
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Yeah, cycling athletics.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Something says one of our very talented athletes said to
a record at the weekend, too, okay, how a good
time in the Paralympics. But the Paralympics is I thought
for the first day of the Paralympics facts. This week
we're going to let the history of the Paralymics and
how it started well. Doctor Ludwig Gutmann was a Jewish
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doctor that escaped Germany just before World War Two and
at the behest of the British government, he opened a
spinal injury center at a hospital called the Stoke Madeville
Hospital for a rehab of World War two veterans. They
were coming back with injuries. World War One, a lot
of injuries sustained dead. That's how medical advances meant that
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a lot more people were surviving war and having life
changing injuries, amputations, all manner of things, spinal injuries everything.
So in nineteen forty four he set up a spinal
injuries center and at the time he said, when it
got to a certain part these men, the best rehab
for them was sports light versions of sports. But they
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didn't want to go home and do the same. You
know what it's like when you go to the physio
and they're like when did you go home to do
this stretch for fifteen a day my life. You do
it until it stops hurting, and then you're like, I
will never do that again. And then the injury comes
back because you didn't do it. And this guy found
out that Ludwig Gutman found out that if you gave
men sports that they had played previously or were familiar with,
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they would do them more regularly for their rehab.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But adapted versions, yeah, adapted version.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
So July nineteen forty eight, the opening ceremony of the
London nineteen forty at Olympic Games, Goodman the Doctor organized
the first competition for wheelchair athletes, not as part of
the Olympics, but just to coincide with the opening.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Of the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, sixteen injured servicemen and women took part in archery
from wheelchairs. Okay, yeah, So then it wasn't until nineteen
sixty that the first official Paralympic Games took place. Before
that ever known as the Stoke Madeville Games, named after
the hospital where the rehab unit was set up, and
the games mostly happened on the grounds of the hospital,
things like archery, et cetera. But in nineteen sixty the
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first Paralympic Games took place, four hundred athletes from twenty
three countries. And it all was off the back of
how many countries had servicemen and women after World War
II with altering injuries. Wow, that meant that they couldn't
compete on an equal playing field with those able bodied athletes. Yeah,
but oneted to and so continued to partake in the sports,
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and that's how the Paralympics started up.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
O gosh, and.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
In nineteen seventy six the first Winter Paralympics Games took
place in Sweden. So great that I always winter winter
takes a little bit longer to get it happen. So
today's fact of the day is the Paralympics started because
a doctor was rehabbing so many people with injuries after
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World War two.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Play play We're talking about the Paralympics all week this week.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
And I watched some of the swimming last night, and
boy was I inspired not to go near a pool
because those people are so quick and I've got all
my limbs and I'm able bodied, and I would embarrass myself.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, that was the inspiring aime.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
It's nuts, how it is everything you watch at the
Paralympics so inspiring, amazing, I said yesterday the Olympics, you're.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Like, wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
At the Paralympics, you're like, wow, that's amazing and awfully
INSPI hiring and making me feel terrible. Yep, but boy,
some athletes there. So we're concentrating on the Paralympics all
week this week. Producer Shannon sent me this yesterday saying,
what about the fact of the day about people that
have competed at both the Olympics and the Paralympics. Oh, okay,
and there are not that many examples of it, so
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I would thought I would focus on two.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
One A New Zealander narrowly Fairhall was born in nineteen
forty four on christ Church. She took up archery following
a motorcycle accident that paralyzed it from the waist down,
ending her previous athletics career. She'd always been out there
for the track and field. She won gold at the
Commonwealth Games Young Brisbane for archery in nineteen eighty two.
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She competed at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in nineteen
eighty four and finished thirty fifth, but also competed at
the Summer Paralympics in nineteen seventy two, nineteen eighty, ninety
eighty eight, in the year two thousand, okay, for archery.
So that's a new Zealand are doing it well?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
She was, she was.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I want to get this right.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Paraplegic Okay, when she competed at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I was gonna ask what she was so good?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
She as partlegic competed at the Olympics, okay, and also
went to the Paralympics.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, of the same year. Because I guess, Untrie is
you're either standing or sitting right, like, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, Now, the first person to have won and one
of the I think one of the only people. There's
a couple of people who have won medals at both
the Olympics and the Paralympics. The other examples are cyclists.
You know when the blind cycling, the vision impaired cycling. Yeah,
they need a guide. So it's like a tandem bike.
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And I believe the guide goes at the front and
steers and the other person. Yes they are, but both
win medals, right. So the other ones that have won
Olympic medals and Paralympic medals are people with sight who
were guides for right Paralympic athletes. Okay, but the one
who has won both medals at the Olympics in the
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Paralympics was a Hungarian fencer called pel Securites. He won
a bronze medal in nineteen eighty eight at the Summer
Olympics in Seoul, and in nineteen ninety one he was
in a bus accident. I was in a picture of
the bus accident and it wasn't just like a nose
the towel with the it was it off the transport.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It was no, it was a burst.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It was the carcass of the bus was just burst
into flames in a one massive collision with a truck.
He had in that accident he ended up in a
wheelchair and so he took up wheelchair fencing. He won
gold at the nineteen ninety two Summer Paralympics in Barcelona,
two gold at Atlanta in nineteen ninety six, a bronze
in two thousand, two thousand and four and two thousand
and eight, as well as the bronze medal that he
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won for fencing in the nineteen eighty eight Olympics before
his bus accident in nineteen ninety one. And he's fifty
nine years old. Huh yeah, I would amazing old have
havn't competed that well yeah, but so that's today's fact
to the is a New Zealand archer has competed at
both the Paralympics and the Olympics, and a Hungarian fencer
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has won medals at both.
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Play CDMs Fleedsvaughn and Hailey.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Today's fact of the day, well, this week's fact of
the day.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
There is the Paralympics, which is an amazing event and
I recommend watching a bit of it on TV one's
doing after seven sharp.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
They do kind of the evening's Paralympic recap.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Also, the Instagram accounts still pop on the Olympics and Paralympics.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Account Yeah, there's so much good content in the Paralympics.
Amazing people. Ah, but I wanted to talk today about
cheating at the Paralympics. That has been some cheating chety
him at the Paralympics. I'll go through a few of them,
but I want to finish on the big one. At
Tokyo twenty twenty Paralympics game discus throw a. Venud Kuma
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was banned for two years after we found who have
intentionally misrepresented his disabilities?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh okay, what like high an arm or something. He
just ducked under his jumper like when you're a kid
and you were like to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yeah. No, he was about his intellectual disabilities and such, right,
And that's that's quite a common thing.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Because they class the may based on yes, disabilities.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, so you're trying to get a little hid start.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And they're constantly reclassifying because if you watch any of
the Paralympics, there'll be a little Code eighteen or something, yeah,
in a letter and some some numbers, and they reclassifying them.
And a couple of times, controversially, right before the Paralympics starts,
they can reclassify it right up to there. Well that's
got to be annoying if you've been training in that class. Yeah,
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well exactly, yeah, and then you've popped into a different class.
But I think the most interesting Paralympic scandal that I
could find, there's a bit of as much doping. Yeah,
there's doping in the Paralympics. God yeah, and they tests
speed and strength. However, it was the Paralympics in Sydney
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that already had numerous positive drug tests, but Spain was
stripped of their gold medal and basketball after it turns
out their team had been exposed by an undercovered journalist
who had infiltrated and become part of their team, claiming
to have an intellectual disability in an effort to oursse
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the fact, he believed that other people on the team
were also lying about their intellectual disabilities. Oh my god,
so this guy makes the team, Carlos ribergorod We had to.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Be good at basketball, have already had basketball skills?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
He revealed to Spanish Burtist's magazine that most of his
colleagues in the team had not undergone medical and medical
tests to ensure they had a disability, and most of
them were lying about.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The disabilities they had listed.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
So the IBC investigated the claims and found that the
required mental tests which show that the competitors have an
IQ of no more than seventy five, was not ever
conducted by the Spanish Paralympic committee. And he also alleged
that Spanish participants in table tennis, track and field and
swimming events were not disabled five medals were won for
udulently and had to be returned.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Naughty Spain.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Naughty, naughty Spain.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
But hey, yeah, yeah, I know, but delicious pay a well,
let's not tarnish all of Spain with this.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah, some naughty Spanish people running through. So ten of
the twelve competitors and the winning team were not disabled.
One out of twelve, including the journalist who was one.
Naughty Spain Spain, naughty Spain. So today's fact of the days.
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There's cheating at the Paralympics as well, and perhaps no
larger than the two thousand Summer Paralympics in Sydney when
the Spanish basketball team.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Who won goal naughty.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Very few of them ever had anything that would qualify
them for the Paralympics play. Today's fact of the day
is that the parallem it's the Paralympics themed the day week.
The Paralympics medals are a little bit different to the
Olympics medals.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Today.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yes, how well, I'll go back to twenty twelve, okay,
and I'll work my way up to current day. In fact,
I'm going to go twenty twelve. We've wught back to
twenty sixteen because I think twenty sixteen is the best. Okay,
different wayward medal.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's a wayward trial. I'll say it's all over the
show London. I'm going to call it a shit storm. Sure, okay,
you could call it that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
London's Paralympics medals were more or less the same, except
it had braille writing on it. Oh. Yes, The reverse
featured the rim around it read London twenty twelve Paralympic Games.
And then that was written in English, and then the
dots afterwards that make that braille. It said harder tree
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and that was the difference. It had braille on it.
These standard Olympic medals didn't have brail on it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Can I ask a stupid question? Is braille in? Is
Braille one language? No, there's Spanish Braille and Spanishille.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
No, That's what I was like, Is there English Braille?
It's just Mambraille.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Braille was developed by and named after Louis Braille. Yes,
Brailer is not a universal languages some people assume. Although
many languages do use run alphabet. There are many standard
standard systems for braille, like sign language for different languages
and different purposes, such as encoding. Musical math is American
sign language, New Zealand, Simon.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
There is different braills. Interesting sow twelve they had brailgy accepted.
Fletch twenty didn't apologize, Well, it's accepted anywhere. I am
not let my apology I have received. He wasn't wrong.
He was because you said, no, it's not in all
different languages, and it is. I thought he said it
is all different languages. What was your What did you say?
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There's a Spanish brail, there's German brails. Laughed because he
was making a joke. But the joke except his apologies.
It's fine with jo. Okay, I'm confused.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
So twenty twenty, in Tokyo, the they again had Braill
on them the Paralympics medals and on the side the
gold medal had one indentation, the silver medal had two indentations, the.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Bronze medal had three ins. Oh, okay, so that was
what did that signify? No, I'm kidding, I got it.
I got it on the first guy. I'm not as
dumb as Flip who thought that brail was just a
global language.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He was a dama.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Now the Paralympic medals this year for twenty twenty four
much like the Olympics medals contained an original piece of
iron from the Eiffel Tower. Yeah, and had a graphic
representation of the Eiffel Tower viewed from below.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It's my favorite view of the Eiffel Tower. Get up
underneath and the perverts. It looks bigger from a lower end.
This is why Vaughan has a restraining order of one
hundred meters around the Eifels.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Upstating any big buildings skytower with a large base. I
walk under the sky chair and was like, so there
is Brail on this one, and different engravings on the
different medals, Yeah, to indicate what they are and that
honor is, by the way, Louis Brail, who was the
inventor of Brail, who was French?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Any different versions to yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I think the coolest Paralympic medals were those of the
twenty sixteen Olympics.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Rio did. They're all my favorite Olympics, my favorite form
of Brail as well, and it was your favorite Olympics.
Actually it probably was. I loved Rio. I've loved this
year though. This year has been really good.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, but real Degenera had Braille. But each medal also
rattled the rattle of the gold medal sounded different to
the rattle of the silver metal, which sounded different to
the rattle of the bronze medal.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
What's inside it? Different things? Rice, rice or whatever they
put in the racas. I found a video here of
a I'm just gonna work. Yeah, no, nothing else is playing.
So you met it on something and you chicken sound
that small? You don't have YouTube premium. It's a new story.
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It's a news story.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
So come with their own sound. Rattle inside gives off
a metallic sound when they're shaken.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Silver medal.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Visually impaired athletes tell the difference between each award the gold.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Tambourine. Oh, that's another ad. It's a news story. It's
a new story where they shook the ones.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
But that's the coolest because it had braille on it
and it had a rattle, so you could shake it
and hear the difference between what metal you were holding.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So if you went to and you did, you did
multiple you you.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Had a lot of my medals and you had them
all on you could be like Ah West ones the
bronze which runs the silver, and you could do it
by shaking it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
If you didn't speak German Braille, for example, is this
the end of Paralympics week. It is the end of
Paralympics Week. I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Yeah, afterday simply made
up for calendar week. Oh calendar, Why do we keep
ringing a cult classic?
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It wasn't a huge at the office, but it's really
since it was released.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
On DVD and.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Huge control and calendar week. So today's back to today
is the Paralympic medals are just a little bit different.
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Split Born and Haley.
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On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Bourne
plunged himself on the couch for a week of Paralympics.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Fact.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's time for Fact of the Day.
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didn't sound right cphone.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I actually think it might be flitch because before I
had to turn my own microphone on.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I think so too, because I didn't touch that it
was and I had to go like that. Feel free
to feel free to operate your own microphone at your will.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well, that's actually your job because you've got the buttons, and.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
He's responsibilities to fellow employers. I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I don't want to. I don't want that. Write that down,
Write that down, write that down. We're here to bring
this vibe higher, and I bring the scene.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Blame for anything, hands off, hands off, and the ViBe's right.
I'm doing my job and I don't know. It feels
pretty good. Vibe feels pretty good, right, it's a Paralympics
themed fact of the week this weekday where month?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah h, no further comment. You're for the comment, your honor.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So I found this a fascinating story, a fascinating story.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
The Paralympics.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
People who compete may have sustained a life altering injury.
Perhaps they were born differently abled. This is the story
about Oksana Masters, who was born in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's the year I was born, and Taylor Swift in
the Ukraine. Yeah, three years after the Ukraine. I don't
say that, I do appon it's not and it's not
the Vorn star Ukraine it is. It's not there to
addressed in fletch, the Vorn and the definitive Vorn. Could
(02:11):
it be a fletch above orn and somehow?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, she was born in Ukraine in nineteen eighty nine,
three years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh yeah, Well that caused a lot of birth defects,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
She was born with severe physical defects okay, because of
the exposure to the radiation, including six toes, webbed fingers,
no thumbs, one legs fifteen centimeters shorter than the other,
missing some Organs. Oh god was as well as I
have been to Chernobyl.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is this going to start? Am I going to go
to kick organs? To go do account on your organst
start growing extra couple of toes.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You know, she was born there, she was in utero,
her mother was in the zone, was in the zone right,
and she was conceived and it affected the the the
fetus she was born. These were some of her birth defects. Right,
You think, what a disadvantage start to life. She won
(03:12):
a gold medal at the Paralympics across country skiing far out.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What have you done? Have won lots of gold medal?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You were born at the same Yeah, yeah, I know,
but not near Taylor.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Sell out to us, this woman, all these disadvantages go
go middle at the Paralympics, Hailey Sprout TBC.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Hailey Sprout TBC when my life is still just developing.
I'm still extremely young. I'm still on this side of thirty.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Are you going to win anything like you were nominated?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Win a lot?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I've won a lot. Marching doesn't count. The marching isn't
a sport.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
What have you done? Come down?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Really the nerve there?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, come down sight up, give us a smile then.
So she won two of the five medals she won
and twenty eighteen were gold, and went on to compete
at the Paralympics in Tokyo as well, even though they
happened after Memma because of the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, so she was raised in the US and that's
what she competes for because she was adopted by a
woman from the US. This was a big, oh nice
situation in the early nineties that, Yeah, a lot of
babies were adopted from that area to the US. So, yeah,
she said she was missing weight bearing bones in her legs.
Her knees were described as floating. They weren't really supported
(04:40):
by anything. Hands are web five fingers, no thumbs, don't
have a right bicep. I'm missing some organs, I have
one kidney a. I don't have any enamel on my teeth.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Like, all of it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Can you imagine? All of this is doubt to her.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, So how did she was what she said, the
woman that raised her was number one inspiration in her
life to you know, not let these things hold her back.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So what was it? Cross country skier? Yes? So did they?
How did she adapt the skis? I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I don't know the adaptations or even what because you
know the different the classes like.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
S twenty and see something or rather all stands for
the different abilities.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, the different stuff. That's just and they'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
The Olympics is cool, you watch it, But the Paralympics
and aspiring knowing, Yeah, it does make me think what
have I done?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah? Sometimes the gym and I just say.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
That not to no reason why And you've got.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Everything slight tinge in the knee, too much to overcome,
to get stronger.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And better go home. You'll just laid down and kill over. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
So today's fact of the day is it's time to
drop the excuses because a woman one with birth effects
caused by chernobyl, including six toes, web fingers, no thumbs,
one league shorter than the other, missing some organs, won
a gold medal at the Paralympics across country.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Scamp plays Faugh and Hailey.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
It's gonna be Paralympic facts all this week is the
Paralympics kick off.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We've got two silvers and a bronze already.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, cycling athletics.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Something says one of our very talented athletes said to
a record at the weekend, too, okay, how a good
time in the Paralympics. But the Paralympics is I thought
for the first day of the Paralympics facts. This week
we're going to let the history of the Paralymics and
how it started well. Doctor Ludwig Gutmann was a Jewish
(06:44):
doctor that escaped Germany just before World War Two and
at the behest of the British government, he opened a
spinal injury center at a hospital called the Stoke Madeville
Hospital for a rehab of World War two veterans. They
were coming back with injuries. World War One, a lot
of injuries sustained dead. That's how medical advances meant that
(07:10):
a lot more people were surviving war and having life
changing injuries, amputations, all manner of things, spinal injuries everything.
So in nineteen forty four he set up a spinal
injuries center and at the time he said, when it
got to a certain part these men, the best rehab
for them was sports light versions of sports. But they
(07:31):
didn't want to go home and do the same. You
know what it's like when you go to the physio
and they're like when did you go home to do
this stretch for fifteen a day my life. You do
it until it stops hurting, and then you're like, I
will never do that again. And then the injury comes
back because you didn't do it. And this guy found
out that Ludwig Gutman found out that if you gave
men sports that they had played previously or were familiar with,
(07:51):
they would do them more regularly for their rehab.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But adapted versions, yeah, adapted version.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
So July nineteen forty eight, the opening ceremony of the
London nineteen forty at Olympic Games, Goodman the Doctor organized
the first competition for wheelchair athletes, not as part of
the Olympics, but just to coincide with the opening.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Of the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, sixteen injured servicemen and women took part in archery
from wheelchairs. Okay, yeah, So then it wasn't until nineteen
sixty that the first official Paralympic Games took place. Before
that ever known as the Stoke Madeville Games, named after
the hospital where the rehab unit was set up, and
the games mostly happened on the grounds of the hospital,
things like archery, et cetera. But in nineteen sixty the
(08:34):
first Paralympic Games took place, four hundred athletes from twenty
three countries. And it all was off the back of
how many countries had servicemen and women after World War
II with altering injuries. Wow, that meant that they couldn't
compete on an equal playing field with those able bodied athletes. Yeah,
but oneted to and so continued to partake in the sports,
(08:58):
and that's how the Paralympics started up.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
O gosh, and.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
In nineteen seventy six the first Winter Paralympics Games took
place in Sweden. So great that I always winter winter
takes a little bit longer to get it happen. So
today's fact of the day is the Paralympics started because
a doctor was rehabbing so many people with injuries after
(09:22):
World War two.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Play play We're talking about the Paralympics all week this week.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
And I watched some of the swimming last night, and
boy was I inspired not to go near a pool
because those people are so quick and I've got all
my limbs and I'm able bodied, and I would embarrass myself.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, that was the inspiring aime.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
It's nuts, how it is everything you watch at the
Paralympics so inspiring, amazing, I said yesterday the Olympics, you're.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Like, wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
At the Paralympics, you're like, wow, that's amazing and awfully
INSPI hiring and making me feel terrible. Yep, but boy,
some athletes there. So we're concentrating on the Paralympics all
week this week. Producer Shannon sent me this yesterday saying,
what about the fact of the day about people that
have competed at both the Olympics and the Paralympics. Oh, okay,
and there are not that many examples of it, so
(10:18):
I would thought I would focus on two.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
One A New Zealander narrowly Fairhall was born in nineteen
forty four on christ Church. She took up archery following
a motorcycle accident that paralyzed it from the waist down,
ending her previous athletics career. She'd always been out there
for the track and field. She won gold at the
Commonwealth Games Young Brisbane for archery in nineteen eighty two.
(10:43):
She competed at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in nineteen
eighty four and finished thirty fifth, but also competed at
the Summer Paralympics in nineteen seventy two, nineteen eighty, ninety
eighty eight, in the year two thousand, okay, for archery.
So that's a new Zealand are doing it well?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
She was, she was.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I want to get this right.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Paraplegic Okay, when she competed at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I was gonna ask what she was so good?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
She as partlegic competed at the Olympics, okay, and also
went to the Paralympics.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, of the same year. Because I guess, Untrie is
you're either standing or sitting right, like, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, Now, the first person to have won and one
of the I think one of the only people. There's
a couple of people who have won medals at both
the Olympics and the Paralympics. The other examples are cyclists.
You know when the blind cycling, the vision impaired cycling. Yeah,
they need a guide. So it's like a tandem bike.
(11:43):
And I believe the guide goes at the front and
steers and the other person. Yes they are, but both
win medals, right. So the other ones that have won
Olympic medals and Paralympic medals are people with sight who
were guides for right Paralympic athletes. Okay, but the one
who has won both medals at the Olympics in the
(12:04):
Paralympics was a Hungarian fencer called pel Securites. He won
a bronze medal in nineteen eighty eight at the Summer
Olympics in Seoul, and in nineteen ninety one he was
in a bus accident. I was in a picture of
the bus accident and it wasn't just like a nose
the towel with the it was it off the transport.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It was no, it was a burst.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It was the carcass of the bus was just burst
into flames in a one massive collision with a truck.
He had in that accident he ended up in a
wheelchair and so he took up wheelchair fencing. He won
gold at the nineteen ninety two Summer Paralympics in Barcelona,
two gold at Atlanta in nineteen ninety six, a bronze
in two thousand, two thousand and four and two thousand
and eight, as well as the bronze medal that he
(12:47):
won for fencing in the nineteen eighty eight Olympics before
his bus accident in nineteen ninety one. And he's fifty
nine years old. Huh yeah, I would amazing old have
havn't competed that well yeah, but so that's today's fact
to the is a New Zealand archer has competed at
both the Paralympics and the Olympics, and a Hungarian fencer
(13:08):
has won medals at both.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Play CDMs Fleedsvaughn and Hailey.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Today's fact of the day, well, this week's fact of
the day.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
There is the Paralympics, which is an amazing event and
I recommend watching a bit of it on TV one's
doing after seven sharp.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
They do kind of the evening's Paralympic recap.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Also, the Instagram accounts still pop on the Olympics and Paralympics.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Account Yeah, there's so much good content in the Paralympics.
Amazing people. Ah, but I wanted to talk today about
cheating at the Paralympics. That has been some cheating chety
him at the Paralympics. I'll go through a few of them,
but I want to finish on the big one. At
Tokyo twenty twenty Paralympics game discus throw a. Venud Kuma
(13:52):
was banned for two years after we found who have
intentionally misrepresented his disabilities?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh okay, what like high an arm or something. He
just ducked under his jumper like when you're a kid
and you were like to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yeah. No, he was about his intellectual disabilities and such, right,
And that's that's quite a common thing.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Because they class the may based on yes, disabilities.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, so you're trying to get a little hid start.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And they're constantly reclassifying because if you watch any of
the Paralympics, there'll be a little Code eighteen or something, yeah,
in a letter and some some numbers, and they reclassifying them.
And a couple of times, controversially, right before the Paralympics starts,
they can reclassify it right up to there. Well that's
got to be annoying if you've been training in that class. Yeah,
(14:46):
well exactly, yeah, and then you've popped into a different class.
But I think the most interesting Paralympic scandal that I
could find, there's a bit of as much doping. Yeah,
there's doping in the Paralympics. God yeah, and they tests
speed and strength. However, it was the Paralympics in Sydney
(15:06):
that already had numerous positive drug tests, but Spain was
stripped of their gold medal and basketball after it turns
out their team had been exposed by an undercovered journalist
who had infiltrated and become part of their team, claiming
to have an intellectual disability in an effort to oursse
(15:27):
the fact, he believed that other people on the team
were also lying about their intellectual disabilities. Oh my god,
so this guy makes the team, Carlos ribergorod We had to.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Be good at basketball, have already had basketball skills?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
He revealed to Spanish Burtist's magazine that most of his
colleagues in the team had not undergone medical and medical
tests to ensure they had a disability, and most of
them were lying about.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The disabilities they had listed.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
So the IBC investigated the claims and found that the
required mental tests which show that the competitors have an
IQ of no more than seventy five, was not ever
conducted by the Spanish Paralympic committee. And he also alleged
that Spanish participants in table tennis, track and field and
swimming events were not disabled five medals were won for
udulently and had to be returned.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Naughty Spain.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Naughty, naughty Spain.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
But hey, yeah, yeah, I know, but delicious pay a well,
let's not tarnish all of Spain with this.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah, some naughty Spanish people running through. So ten of
the twelve competitors and the winning team were not disabled.
One out of twelve, including the journalist who was one.
Naughty Spain Spain, naughty Spain. So today's fact of the days.
(16:49):
There's cheating at the Paralympics as well, and perhaps no
larger than the two thousand Summer Paralympics in Sydney when
the Spanish basketball team.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Who won goal naughty.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Very few of them ever had anything that would qualify
them for the Paralympics play. Today's fact of the day
is that the parallem it's the Paralympics themed the day week.
The Paralympics medals are a little bit different to the
Olympics medals.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Today.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yes, how well, I'll go back to twenty twelve, okay,
and I'll work my way up to current day. In fact,
I'm going to go twenty twelve. We've wught back to
twenty sixteen because I think twenty sixteen is the best. Okay,
different wayward medal.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's a wayward trial. I'll say it's all over the
show London. I'm going to call it a shit storm. Sure, okay,
you could call it that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
London's Paralympics medals were more or less the same, except
it had braille writing on it. Oh. Yes, The reverse
featured the rim around it read London twenty twelve Paralympic Games.
And then that was written in English, and then the
dots afterwards that make that braille. It said harder tree
(18:00):
and that was the difference. It had braille on it.
These standard Olympic medals didn't have brail on it.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Can I ask a stupid question? Is braille in? Is
Braille one language? No, there's Spanish Braille and Spanishille.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
No, That's what I was like, Is there English Braille?
It's just Mambraille.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Braille was developed by and named after Louis Braille. Yes,
Brailer is not a universal languages some people assume. Although
many languages do use run alphabet. There are many standard
standard systems for braille, like sign language for different languages
and different purposes, such as encoding. Musical math is American
sign language, New Zealand, Simon.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
There is different braills. Interesting sow twelve they had brailgy accepted.
Fletch twenty didn't apologize, Well, it's accepted anywhere. I am
not let my apology I have received. He wasn't wrong.
He was because you said, no, it's not in all
different languages, and it is. I thought he said it
is all different languages. What was your What did you say?
(19:02):
There's a Spanish brail, there's German brails. Laughed because he
was making a joke. But the joke except his apologies.
It's fine with jo. Okay, I'm confused.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
So twenty twenty, in Tokyo, the they again had Braill
on them the Paralympics medals and on the side the
gold medal had one indentation, the silver medal had two indentations, the.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Bronze medal had three ins. Oh, okay, so that was
what did that signify? No, I'm kidding, I got it.
I got it on the first guy. I'm not as
dumb as Flip who thought that brail was just a
global language.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He was a dama.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Now the Paralympic medals this year for twenty twenty four
much like the Olympics medals contained an original piece of
iron from the Eiffel Tower. Yeah, and had a graphic
representation of the Eiffel Tower viewed from below.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It's my favorite view of the Eiffel Tower. Get up
underneath and the perverts. It looks bigger from a lower end.
This is why Vaughan has a restraining order of one
hundred meters around the Eifels.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Upstating any big buildings skytower with a large base. I
walk under the sky chair and was like, so there
is Brail on this one, and different engravings on the
different medals, Yeah, to indicate what they are and that
honor is, by the way, Louis Brail, who was the
inventor of Brail, who was French?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Any different versions to yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I think the coolest Paralympic medals were those of the
twenty sixteen Olympics.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Rio did. They're all my favorite Olympics, my favorite form
of Brail as well, and it was your favorite Olympics.
Actually it probably was. I loved Rio. I've loved this
year though. This year has been really good.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, but real Degenera had Braille. But each medal also
rattled the rattle of the gold medal sounded different to
the rattle of the silver metal, which sounded different to
the rattle of the bronze medal.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
What's inside it? Different things? Rice, rice or whatever they
put in the racas. I found a video here of
a I'm just gonna work. Yeah, no, nothing else is playing.
So you met it on something and you chicken sound
that small? You don't have YouTube premium. It's a new story.
(21:25):
It's a news story.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
So come with their own sound. Rattle inside gives off
a metallic sound when they're shaken.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Silver medal.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Visually impaired athletes tell the difference between each award the gold.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Tambourine. Oh, that's another ad. It's a news story. It's
a new story where they shook the ones.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
But that's the coolest because it had braille on it
and it had a rattle, so you could shake it
and hear the difference between what metal you were holding.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So if you went to and you did, you did
multiple you you.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Had a lot of my medals and you had them
all on you could be like Ah West ones the
bronze which runs the silver, and you could do it
by shaking it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
If you didn't speak German Braille, for example, is this
the end of Paralympics week. It is the end of
Paralympics Week. I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Yeah, afterday simply made
up for calendar week. Oh calendar, Why do we keep
ringing a cult classic?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It wasn't a huge at the office, but it's really
since it was released.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
On DVD and.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Huge control and calendar week. So today's back to today
is the Paralympic medals are just a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Fact of the day, day day day day.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
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Speaker 2 (22:50):
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