June 2022

This week inspiration comes from Diede de Groot, who had a spectacular 2018, winning the Australian Open, Wimbledon, US Open and Masters singles titles to become the latest in a long line of women’s wheelchair tennis world No.1s from the Netherlands. The Dutch also joined Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot among the Dutch wheelchair …

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 Franček Gorazd Tiršek is a Slovenian sport shooter who has won three silver medals and one bronze at the Paralympic Games. In 2003 he was involved in a car accident that resulted in tetraplegia. But he didn’t give up and he took up the sport at age 32 at his local shooting club. He took up …

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A journey of recovery, finding hope and ispiration This time Inspirational Wednesday brings you an interview with Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, young Greek, aspiring athlete and a very active person, who’s life got turned upside down after a motorbike accident. Katja Kolenc from Celje Youth Center talked to him about the accident, the long and tenuous recovery …

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Aged just 13 at the time, Ellie Simmonds, who was born with achondroplasia (dwarfism), became the second youngest Paralympian in British history to win a medal of any colour when she competed at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. The fact that she went on to win two gold medals in her first Games and follows …

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Njegoš Mihajlović, athlete leader and Special Olympics medallist has become the first person with intellectual disabilities to enroll in a University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 19-year-old athlete and skier has been accepted into the Faculty of Sports of Pan-European University Apeiron in Banja Luka, where he hopes to learn about Sports Science in order …

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