A woman with birth defects from Chernobyl won a Paralympics gold medal

A woman with birth defects from Chernobyl won a paralympics gold medal

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Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's a Paralympics themed Fact of the week this weekday, week, month, year. Hmm,
no further comment. You're not for the comment, your honor,
So I found this a fascinating story. A fascinating story.
The Paralympics. People who compete may have sustained a life
altering injury. Perhaps they were born differently abled. This is

(01:28):
the story about Oksana Masters, who was born in nineteen
eighty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
That's the year I was born, and Taylor Swift in
the Ukraine. Yeah, three years after Ukraine. I don't say that,
I do opponent, And it's not the Vorn SNAr Ukraine
it is. It's not there to addressed.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Flitch the worn and it's the definitive Vorn. Could it
be a fly above born and somehow Yeah, she was
born in Ukraine in nineteen eighty nine, three years after
the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh yeah, well that caused a lot of birth defects,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
She was born with severe physical defects okay, because of
the exposure to the radiation, including six toes, webbed fingers,
no thumbs, one leg fifteen centimeters shorter than the other,
missing some organs.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh god was as well as wait, I have been
to Chernobyl. Is this going to start? Am I going
to go to kim me orgons? Go do account in
your organs? Start growing extra couple of toes.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
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 fetus
she was born. These were some of her birth defects. Right,
you think, what a disadvantage start to life. She won

(03:00):
a gold medal at.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
The Paralympics across country skiing far roun. What have you done?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I have won lots of gold medal.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
You were born at the same yeah, yeah, no, but
not near Taylor Worft sell out tours. This woman, all
these disadvantages, go gold medal at the Paralympics. Hailey Sprout TBC.
Hailey Sprout TBC.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
When my life is still just developing. I'm still extremely young.
I'm still on this side of thirty.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Are you going to win anything like you're nominated? I
won a lot, I've won a lot. Marching doesn't count
that marching isn't a sport.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
What have you done? Okay? Come downes?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Really the nerve there?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Come down straight up? Give us a smile.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Enough 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 and after Memma because of the pandemic. Yeah. Yeah,

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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
by anything. Hands are web five fingers, no thumbs, don't

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have a right bicep. I'm missing some organs, I have
one kidney a. I don't have any enamel on my teeth,
like all of it. Can you imagine all of this
has doubt to her.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, So how did she was?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
She said the woman that raised her was the number
one inspiration in her life to you know, not let
these things hold her back.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
So what was it?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Cross country skire?

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
So did they? How did she adapt the skis? I
don't I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know the adaptions or even what because you know,
the different the classes like S.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Twenty and see something or rather all stands for the
different abilities.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, the different stuff. That's just.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
And they'll tell you what the Olympics is cool, you
watch it, but the Paralympics is and aspiring knowing.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, you will make you think what have I done? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Sometimes the gym and I just say that not to
take no reason why and you've got everything?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, slight tinge in the knee, Yeah, too much to overcome,
to get stronger and better go home.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Sure, just laid down and kill over. Yeah. So today's
fact of the day is it's time to drop the.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Excuses because a woman born with birth defects caused by Chernobyl,
including six toes, web fingers, no thumbs, one lead shorter
than the other, missing some organs.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
When a gold medal like the Paralympics Across country skiing