Athletes who have competed in both the Olympics and Paralympics

Athletes who have competed in both the Olympics and Paralympics

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day day day. Yeah. Do
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do doo. We're talking about the Paralympics all week this week,
and I watched some of the swimming last night, and boy,

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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. Yeah,
that was the inspiring aim. It's nuts, how it is.
Everything you watch at the Paralymics so inspiring, amazing. I
said yesterday the Olympics, You're like, wow, that's amazing. At

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the Paralymics, You're like, wow, that's amazing and awfully inspiring
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 I would

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thought I would focus on two. Okay. 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

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Brisbane for archery in nineteen eighty two. 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 and eighty eight
in the year two thousand, okay for archery. So that's
a new Zealander doing it well. She was. She was

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I want to get this right. Paraplegic. Okay, when she
competed at the Olympics, I was going to ask what
she was so good? She as partlegic, competed at the
okay and also went to the Paralympics. Yeah, for the
same year. Because I guess auntree is you're either standing
was sitting right like it doesn't matter. Yeah. Now the
first person to have won and one of the I

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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. And I
believe the guide goes at the front and steers and
the other person. Yes they are, but both won medals, right,

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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 Paralympics was a
Hungarian fencer called pel Securites. He won a bronze medal

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and nineteen eighty eight at the sum for 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. It was no, it
was a burst. It was the carcass of the bus
was just burst into flames in an one massive collision
with a truck he had. In that accident, he ended
up in a wheelchair and so he took up wheelchair fencing.

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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 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

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older having competed that. Well, yeah, but so that's today's
fact of the day is a New Zealand archer has
competed at both the Paralympics and the Olympics, and a
Hungarian fencer has won medals at both