Martine Wright — Transcript

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1. 0:03[Music]
2. 0:11[Applause]
3. 0:16on July the 7th 2005 Martin Wright was
4. 0:19just another passenger on the London
5. 0:21Underground until she sat next to a
6. 0:24suicide bomber I just had a white Flash
7. 0:27in front of my eyes and I felt like I
8. 0:30was being thrown from side to side and I
9. 0:34remember consciously
10. 0:36thinking what the hell is going on on 77
11. 0:412005 Martin Wright began a quite
12. 0:44extraordinary Journey her very personal
13. 0:46stories Inseparable from London's public
14. 0:49preparations for the games by 2007 as
15. 0:52London's often embattled organizers were
16. 0:55bruised by budget issues and battered by
17. 0:57a hostile response to the game's logo
18. 0:59Martin began to reveal her irrepressible
19. 1:02Spirit learning to ski and fly then in
20. 1:05May 2008 as Boris Johnson became mayor
21. 1:08of London the Beijing games provided
22. 1:10Martin a map for her own journey I knew
23. 1:12that I had to do something as a result
24. 1:14of losing my legs that day otherwise to
25. 1:16me it would have been all a complete
26. 1:18waste of time so I was actually
27. 1:21looking at the par Olympics in a very
28. 1:25new light in a in a light of a disabled
29. 1:28person and uh look looking at it and
30. 1:30thinking my God wouldn't it be amazing
31. 1:32to do something like that so I started
32. 1:36playing for a sitting volleyball
33. 1:38club what I did enjoy about it is that
34. 1:42you're not in your chair you know you
35. 1:44you you move on on the floor it's a very
36. 1:46Dynamic game very fast game Martin tried
37. 1:49out for the first GB sitting volleyball
38. 1:51team she was selected to play in the
39. 1:54world
40. 1:55championships in a chilling coincidence
41. 1:57they traveled to the tournament in the
42. 1:59USA
43. 2:00on July the
44. 2:017th that's when I sort of
45. 2:05realized oh my God I could
46. 2:08be on such a special Journey on you know
47. 2:12I could actually end up at the
48. 2:16Paralympics the news they dreamed of
49. 2:18finally came in March
50. 2:202012 I just think back and I actually
51. 2:24can't believe the journey that has
52. 2:28happened and is happening now now that
53. 2:30I'm on um you know maybe I was always
54. 2:34meant to get up late that morning maybe
55. 2:35I was always meant to run up the
56. 2:38escalator and jump on that Carriage that
57. 2:40I got on you know maybe I was always
58. 2:42meant to do this journey I don't know I
59. 2:44can't I can't answer that all I can say
60. 2:47is that I'm just lucky to be living this
61. 2:51dream now