00:00My name was The Rising Phoenix, because the Phoenix can live and die and burn and live again.
00:07Extraordinary tension around this stadium.
00:10Take your mark.
00:11All right.
00:15Here we have seen something that has not allowed us to succeed.
00:21This is how I am. Merry Christmas.
00:25If you're thinking every day why me, you will never go anywhere.
00:30When I saw how sport is accepted, it was logical to start a sports movement.
00:37We want to change the way people saw people with a disability.
00:42There isn't anything else in the world that can bring you back from the darkest places than sport.
00:49I think the moment I sat in that racing chair, I just knew it was for me.
00:57My coach said to me, I see talent in you.
01:00I was never going to do anything other than 100 meters.
01:03When you're hitting someone head on, it's like a small car crash.
01:07Everybody knows you need money to run the games.
01:09I said that the Paralympics is going to be cancelled because there was no money.
01:13If these games don't happen, we're done.
01:16We're going to fight this.
01:18Paralympics is something almost magical.
01:22Being a part of something bigger than this yourself was incredible.
01:30Yes, lives are being changed on the track, but lives are also being changed in the stands.
01:43We are part of a much bigger picture.
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