The Journey Martine Wright — Transcript

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1. 0:07[Music]
2. 0:12the International Olympic Committee
3. 0:15announcing
4. 0:17at the games of the 30th Olympiad
5. 0:202012 awarded to the city
6. 0:26[Music]
7. 0:28we've been celebrating in the afternoon
8. 0:30that London and Romney Olympic bid and
9. 0:32which I saw is a good excuse to go out
10. 0:34and have a few drinks really to
11. 0:36celebrate
12. 0:37[Music]
13. 0:41following morning my alarm went off and
14. 0:45I'm usually very good in the morning I'm
15. 0:47quite a morning person
16. 0:48that morning I decided to have ten
17. 0:52minutes
18. 0:53those ten minutes would come at a price
19. 0:56on July the 7th 2005 Martine ride was
20. 1:01just another passenger on the London
21. 1:02Underground until she sat next to a
22. 1:05suicide bomber I just had a white flash
23. 1:08in front of my eyes and I felt like I
24. 1:11was being thrown from side to side and I
25. 1:15remember consciously thinking what the
26. 1:20hell is going on today the chilling
27. 1:23sound Ives son of terribly guilty
28. 1:25vehicles
29. 1:26the [ __ ] out of her today
30. 1:29encourages killing suddenly it was just
31. 1:35black devastation you know it's just
32. 1:39blackness
33. 1:43[Music]
34. 1:45I don't remember the pain I just do not
35. 1:47remember any pain all I could see was a
36. 1:52sort of metal going down into me I
37. 1:56didn't realize that my legs were were
38. 1:58caught up in it and there was just an
39. 2:00electrical sort of burning smell and it
40. 2:03was getting a little quieter and quieter
41. 2:05as well and I can only really equate
42. 2:07that to in the beginning of people were
43. 2:10dying in things
44. 2:14I could see this figure coming down
45. 2:17towards the door that been blown off and
46. 2:21this was Leslie's Kenworthy the off-duty
47. 2:24policeman
48. 2:25[Music]
49. 2:27and basically this was the lady that
50. 2:30saved my life
51. 2:32[Music]
52. 2:39she just think I'm so lucky just so
53. 2:47lucky she ji came through and I can't
54. 2:55imagine again what she was faced with
55. 2:58but because you know I was there and she
56. 3:01and she saw the states of my legs and I
57. 3:05remember seeing her and I just kept
58. 3:07saying to her my name is Martine right
59. 3:10please tell my mom and dad I'm okay my
60. 3:12name's Martine right on 7-7 2005 Martine
61. 3:16rights began a quite extraordinary
62. 3:18journey her very personal stories
63. 3:20inseparable from London's public
64. 3:22preparations for the games by 2007 as
65. 3:26London's often embattled organisers were
66. 3:28bruised by budget issues and battered by
67. 3:30a hostile response to the games logo
68. 3:32Martine began to reveal her
69. 3:34irrepressible spirit learning to ski and
70. 3:37fly then in May 2008 as Boris Johnson
71. 3:40became mayor of London the Beijing Games
72. 3:42provided Martine a map for her own
73. 3:45journey I knew that I had to do
74. 3:46something as a result of losing my legs
75. 3:48that day otherwise to me it would have
76. 3:51been all the complete waste of time so I
77. 3:53was actually looking the Paralympics in
78. 3:58a very new light you know in a light of
79. 4:00a disabled person and
80. 4:03and thinking oh my god wouldn't it be
81. 4:05amazing to do something like that so I
82. 4:08started playing for a Sitting Volleyball
83. 4:11Club what I did enjoy about it is that
84. 4:15you're not in your chair you know you
85. 4:17you you move on on the floor it's very
86. 4:19dynamic game very fast game in 2010
87. 4:25Britain elected its youngest prime
88. 4:27minister in nearly two hundred years
89. 4:30with little experience herself Martine
90. 4:33tried out for the first GB Sitting
91. 4:34Volleyball tea she was selected to play
92. 4:37in the World Championships in a chilling
93. 4:40coincidence they traveled to the
94. 4:42tournaments in the USA and July the 7th
95. 4:45that's when I sort of realized oh my god
96. 4:50I could be on such a special journey you
97. 4:56know I could actually end up the
98. 4:59Paralympics
99. 5:00as the mood turned roared you're in the
100. 5:02riots of 2011 it was a tense time for
101. 5:05Martine and her teammates who still had
102. 5:08to persuade the British Paralympic
103. 5:10Association they were good enough to
104. 5:12appear at the games the news they
105. 5:14dreamed of finally came in March 2012
106. 5:17I just think back and I actually can't
107. 5:21believe the journey that has happened
108. 5:25and is happening now that I'm on you
109. 5:29know maybe I was always meant to get up
110. 5:31late that morning maybe I was always
111. 5:33meant to run up the escalator and jump
112. 5:36on that carriage that I got on you know
113. 5:38maybe I was always meant to do this
114. 5:40journey I don't know I can't I can't
115. 5:42answer that all I can say is that I'm
116. 5:46just lucky to be living this dream now
117. 5:49[Music]