Inspirational Speaker & Paralympian Martine Wright | CSA Celebrity Speakers — Transcript

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1. 0:11[Music]
2. 0:16the international Olympic Committee has
3. 0:19the honor of announcing that the games
4. 0:22of the 30th Olympia
5. 0:242012 are awarded to the city of London
6. 0:30[Music]
7. 0:32we'd all been celebrating in the
8. 0:33afternoon that London had won the
9. 0:35Olympic bid and we just thought it was a
10. 0:37good excuse to go out and have a few
11. 0:39drinks really to
12. 0:41[Music]
13. 0:44celebrate following morning my alarm
14. 0:47went off um and I am usually very good
15. 0:50in the morning I'm quite a morning
16. 0:51person uh that morning I decided to have
17. 0:5510 minutes more in bed those 10 minutes
18. 0:59would come at a
19. 1:00r on July the 7th 2005 Martin Wright was
20. 1:05just another passenger on the London
21. 1:07Underground until she sat next to a
22. 1:09suicide bomber I just had a white Flash
23. 1:12in front of my eyes and I felt like I
24. 1:15was being thrown from side to side and I
25. 1:20remember consciously
26. 1:22thinking what the hell is going on today
27. 1:26the chilling sound toally vehicles
28. 1:30the how to hurt
29. 1:33the killing anding
30. 1:37suddenly it was just black Devastation
31. 1:42you know it just
32. 1:48Blackness I don't remember the pain I
33. 1:51just do not remember any pain um all I
34. 1:55could see was sort of
35. 1:57metal going down in to me I didn't
36. 2:00realize that my legs were were caught up
37. 2:03in it and there was just an electrical
38. 2:05sort of burning smell and it was getting
39. 2:07a little quieter and quieter as well and
40. 2:10and I can only really equate that to in
41. 2:12in the beginning of people were dying
42. 2:15and
43. 2:18things I could see the figure coming
44. 2:21down towards the door that had been
45. 2:23blown off um and this was Liz Liz
46. 2:27Kenworthy the off-duty policewoman
47. 2:31um and basically this was the the lady
48. 2:34that saved my
49. 2:36[Music]
50. 2:43life
51. 2:45she it's right it's all right just I
52. 2:48just think I'm so lucky just so lucky
53. 2:53but um
54. 2:55she she came
55. 2:57through and I I can't imagine
56. 3:00again what she was faced with but
57. 3:02because you know I was there and she and
58. 3:05she saw the state of my legs and uh I
59. 3:09remember seeing her and I just kept
60. 3:11saying to her my name's Martine right
61. 3:14please tell my mom and dad I'm okay my
62. 3:16name is Martine Wright so far 700
63. 3:19casualties have been confirmed my family
64. 3:22got taken aside uh by one of the
65. 3:24bereavement counselors and said
66. 3:26look we have a lady that is description
67. 3:31of your daughter but we need to tell you
68. 3:34the extent of our injuries you know
69. 3:37again
70. 3:38just don't know how you know um cuz
71. 3:42there must have been one half of them
72. 3:45must have been God thank God we found
73. 3:48her another half must have been look at
74. 3:51the state of her you
75. 3:53know on 77 2005 Martin Wright began a
76. 3:57quite extraordinary Journey the very
77. 4:00personal stories Inseparable from
78. 4:01London's public preparations for the
79. 4:03games by 2007 as London's often
80. 4:07embattled organizers were bruised by
81. 4:09budget issues and battered by a hostile
82. 4:11response to the game's logo Martin began
83. 4:14to reveal her irrepressible Spirit
84. 4:17learning to ski and
85. 4:19[Music]
86. 4:20fly then in May 2008 as Boris Johnson
87. 4:24became mayor of London the Beijing games
88. 4:26provided Martin a map for her own
89. 4:28Journey I knew that I had to do
90. 4:31something as a result of losing my legs
91. 4:33that day otherwise to me it would have
92. 4:35been all a complete waste of time so I
93. 4:37was actually
94. 4:39looking at the par Olympics in a very
95. 4:42new light in a in a light of a disabled
96. 4:45person and uh looking at it and thinking
97. 4:48my God wouldn't it be amazing to do
98. 4:51something like that so I started playing
99. 4:54for a sitting volleyball
100. 4:56club what I did enjoy about it is that
101. 4:59you're not in your chair you know you
102. 5:01you you move on on the floor it's a very
103. 5:04Dynamic game very fast
104. 5:06game I came into politics in 2010
105. 5:10Britain elected its youngest prime
106. 5:11minister in nearly 200
107. 5:14years with little experience herself
108. 5:16Martin tried out for the first GB
109. 5:18sitting volleyball team she was selected
110. 5:21to play in the world
111. 5:23championships in a chilling coincidence
112. 5:26they traveled to the tournament in the
113. 5:27USA on July the 7th
114. 5:30that's when I sort of
115. 5:33realized oh my God I could
116. 5:36be on such a special Journey on you know
117. 5:40I could actually end up at the par
118. 5:44Olympics as the mood turned raw during
119. 5:47the Riots of
120. 5:482011 it was a tense time for Martine and
121. 5:51her teammates who still had to persuade
122. 5:53the British paralympic Association they
123. 5:55were good enough to appear at the games
124. 5:58the news they dreamed of finally came in
125. 5:59March
126. 6:012012 I just think back and I actually
127. 6:05can't believe the journey that has
128. 6:09happened and is happening now that I'm
129. 6:11on um you know maybe I was always meant
130. 6:15to get up late that morning maybe I was
131. 6:17always meant to run up the escalator and
132. 6:20jump on that Carriage that I got on you
133. 6:22know maybe I was always meant to do this
134. 6:24journey I don't know I can't I can't
135. 6:27answer that all I can say is that
136. 6:30I'm just lucky to be living this dream
137. 6:32now
138. 6:33[Music]