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Lesson 8F.

Unstoppable.

One.

The cyclist.

In nineteen seventy-six, at the age of fifteen, Christian Hetick had a serious car accident. He lost his left arm and his left leg. For the next few years, he found it very difficult to live with his disability. But, in nineteen eighty-four, he saw a man with one leg cycle up a steep hill.

I can do that, he thought, and he learned to cycle. It was really difficult. He fell off his bike many times, but he kept trying.

In nineteen eighty-five, he began to compete in races for disabled cyclists. His ambition was to compete in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in two thousand, and he trained hard to be in the French team. But then the rules for the competition changed, and Christian could not take part because his disability did not match the new rules.

So Christian found a new challenge: cycling up mountains. Now, he competes in mountain races and cycles around twenty-seven thousand kilometers every year.

Two.

The racing driver.

British driver Mike Newman enjoys breaking speed records. For example, in twenty thirteen, he broke two: the land speed and the water speed records. This achievement is more amazing because Mike cannot see. He was born with a serious eye disease and became completely blind at the age of eight.

For many years, Mike did not think it was possible to take part in motor sports. But at the age of forty, he started riding motorbikes, and then he tried cars.

I love the engines, the smells, the noises which come with it, he says. He set new land speed records in two thousand and three and two thousand and five. But in two thousand and ten, Metin Senturk, a blind Turkish pop star, went faster.

So, in twenty thirteen, Mike had to set a new record. It is very difficult and dangerous. Imagine driving a car at three hundred kilometers per hour with your eyes closed.

When he isn't breaking records, Mike runs a charity called Speed of Sight. The charity helps other blind people to take part in motor sports.

Three.

The skier.

Alana Nichols was a very sporty child. She loved volleyball and basketball. As a teenager, Alana's ambition was to study sports at university. But then, at the age of seventeen, she broke her back in a serious snowboarding accident. She couldn't walk. For two years, she did not know what to do with her life. But at the age of nineteen, she discovered a new sport: wheelchair basketball. She became part of the national team for the USA, and in two thousand and eight, they won a gold medal at the Paralympics in Beijing.

Alana realized that other sports were possible for her too. She tried surfing and kayaking. Then she tried skiing. She trained hard and became part of the American Paralympic team. At the two thousand and ten Winter Paralympics, she became the only athlete to win gold medals at the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games when she won four medals for skiing: two gold, a silver, and a bronze. Then, in twenty fourteen, she won another silver medal at the Winter Games.