Martine Wright — Transcript

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1. 0:12the international olympic committee
2. 0:15is the honor of announcing
3. 0:17that the games of the 30th olympiad in
4. 0:202012
5. 0:21are awarded
6. 0:23to the city of london
7. 0:28we've all been celebrating in the
8. 0:29afternoon that london had won the
9. 0:31olympic bid and we just thought it was a
10. 0:33good excuse to go out and have a few
11. 0:35drinks really to celebrate
12. 0:41following morning my alarm went off
13. 0:45and i'm usually very good in the morning
14. 0:46i'm quite a morning person
15. 0:49that morning
16. 0:50i decided to have 10 minutes more in bed
17. 0:54those 10 minutes would come at a price
18. 0:57july the 7th 2005 martine wright was
19. 1:01just another passenger on the london
20. 1:02underground
21. 1:04until she sat next to a suicide bomber i
22. 1:06just had a white flash in front of my
23. 1:09eyes
24. 1:10and i felt like i was being thrown
25. 1:13from
26. 1:14side to side and i remember consciously
27. 1:17thinking
28. 1:19what
29. 1:20the hell is going on
30. 1:22today the chilling sounds
31. 1:32suddenly
32. 1:34it was
33. 1:35just black
34. 1:37devastation you know it just blackness
35. 1:45i don't remember the pain i just do not
36. 1:47remember any pain
37. 1:51all i could see was sort of metal
38. 1:54going down
39. 1:55into me i didn't realize that my legs
40. 1:57were
41. 1:58caught up in it and there was just an
42. 2:00electrical sort of burning smell and it
43. 2:03was getting a little quieter and quieter
44. 2:05as well and and i can only really equate
45. 2:07that to in in the beginning if people
46. 2:09were
47. 2:10dying and things
48. 2:14i could see this figure coming down
49. 2:18towards the door that been blown off um
50. 2:21and this was liz liz kemworthy the
51. 2:23off-duty policewoman
52. 2:28and basically this was the
53. 2:30lady that
54. 2:31saved my life
55. 2:40she
56. 2:42that's right it's all right just i just
57. 2:45think i'm so lucky
58. 2:46just
59. 2:47so lucky
60. 2:48but um
61. 2:50she
62. 2:52she came through
63. 2:54and i can't imagine
64. 2:56again what she was faced with but
65. 2:58because
66. 2:59you know i was there and she and she saw
67. 3:01the state of my
68. 3:03legs and
69. 3:05i remember seeing her and i just kept
70. 3:07saying to her
71. 3:08my name's martine wright please tell my
72. 3:11mum and dad i'm okay my name's martine
73. 3:13wright on 7 7 2005 martin wright began a
74. 3:17quite extraordinary journey her very
75. 3:19personal story is inseparable from
76. 3:21london's public preparations for the
77. 3:23games
78. 3:24by 2007 as london's often embattled
79. 3:27organisers were bruised by budget issues
80. 3:29and battered by a hostile response to
81. 3:31the game's logo martine began to reveal
82. 3:34her irrepressible spirit learning to ski
83. 3:37and fly
84. 3:38then in may 2008 as boris johnson became
85. 3:41mayor of london the beijing games
86. 3:43provided martine a map for her own
87. 3:45journey i knew that i had to do
88. 3:46something as a result of losing my legs
89. 3:48that day otherwise to me it would have
90. 3:50been all a complete waste of time so i
91. 3:53was actually looking
92. 3:56at
93. 3:57the paralympics in a very new light in a
94. 3:59in a light of a disabled person and
95. 4:02looking at it and thinking my god
96. 4:04wouldn't it be amazing to do
97. 4:06something like that so i started playing
98. 4:10for a sitting volleyball club
99. 4:12what i did enjoy about it is
100. 4:15that you're not in your chair you know
101. 4:17you you move on on the floor it's a very
102. 4:19dynamic game very fast game
103. 4:23i came into politics
104. 4:24in 2010 britain elected its youngest
105. 4:27prime minister in nearly 200 years
106. 4:30with little experience herself martine
107. 4:33tried out for the first gb sitting
108. 4:34volleyball team
109. 4:36she was selected to play in the world
110. 4:38championships
111. 4:39in a chilling coincidence they traveled
112. 4:42to the tournament in the usa on july the
113. 4:447th
114. 4:46that's when
115. 4:47i sort of realized
116. 4:49oh my god i could be
117. 4:53on such a special journey on you know i
118. 4:56could actually end up
119. 4:58at the paralympics
120. 5:01as the mood turned raw during the riots
121. 5:03of 2011
122. 5:04it was a tense time for martine and her
123. 5:06teammates who still had to persuade the
124. 5:09british paralympic association they were
125. 5:11good enough to appear at the games
126. 5:13the news they dreamed of finally came in
127. 5:15march 2012.
128. 5:18i just
129. 5:19think back and i actually can't believe
130. 5:22the journey that
131. 5:24has happened and is happening now that
132. 5:26i'm on um
133. 5:29you know
134. 5:29maybe i was always meant to get up late
135. 5:31that morning maybe i was always meant to
136. 5:34run up the escalator and jump on that
137. 5:36carriage that i got on you know maybe i
138. 5:39was always meant to do this journey i
139. 5:40don't know i can't
140. 5:42i can't answer that all i can say is
141. 5:44that
142. 5:46i'm just lucky to be living this dream
143. 5:48now
144. 5:55you