The Journey - The Martine Wright Story — Transcript

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1. 0:11the International Olympic Committee is
2. 0:15the honor of announcing
3. 0:17at the game 7 30 at Olympia
4. 0:202012 awarded to the City of London
5. 0:28we've been celebrating in the afternoon
6. 0:30that London and Romney Olympic bid and
7. 0:31widgets or a good excuse to go out and
8. 0:34have a few drinks really to celebrate
9. 0:41following morning my alarm went off and
10. 0:45I'm usually very good in the morning I'm
11. 0:46quite a morning person that morning I
12. 0:50decided to have 10 minutes more embedded
13. 0:53those 10 minutes would come at a price
14. 0:56on July the 7th 2005 Martin ride was
15. 1:01just another passenger and the london
16. 1:02underground until she sat next to a
17. 1:05suicide bomber I just had a white flash
18. 1:08in front of my eyes and I felt like I
19. 1:11was being thrown from side to side and I
20. 1:15remember consciously thinking what the
21. 1:19hell is going on today the chilling
22. 1:23sound I've son of joseph lee st vehicles
23. 1:26the boys out of birds and suddenly it
24. 1:34was just black devastation you know it
25. 1:38did blackness
26. 1:45I don't remember the pain I just do not
27. 1:47remember any pain all I could see was a
28. 1:52sort of metal going down into me I
29. 1:56didn't realize that my legs were were
30. 1:58caught up in it there was just an
31. 2:00electrical sort of burnings now and it
32. 2:03was getting a little quieter and quieter
33. 2:04as well and I can only really equate
34. 2:07that to in the beginning of people
35. 2:10dying and things
36. 2:14I could see this figure coming down
37. 2:17towards the door that been blown off and
38. 2:21this was Liz Liz Kenworthy the off-duty
39. 2:24police woman
40. 2:26um I'm basically this was the the lady
41. 2:30that same I not
42. 2:39she that's why it's alright just yeah I
43. 2:44just think I'm so lucky just so lucky oh
44. 2:49she she came through and I can't imagine
45. 2:56again what she was faced with but
46. 2:58because you know I was there and she and
47. 3:01she saw the state of my legs and I
48. 3:05remember seeing her and I just kept
49. 3:07saying to her my name's montine right
50. 3:10please tell my mom and dad I'm okay my
51. 3:12name's Martin right so far seven hundred
52. 3:15casualties have been confirmed that my
53. 3:17family got taken aside by one the
54. 3:20bereavement counselors and said look we
55. 3:24have a lady that is description of your
56. 3:27daughter but we need to tell you the
57. 3:30extent their injuries
58. 3:33just
59. 3:35did I help you know um cuz they must
60. 3:39have been one half of them must have
61. 3:41been God thank God we found another half
62. 3:45must have been because the study about
63. 3:48you know I'm 77 2005 Martin rights began
64. 3:53a quite extraordinary journey a very
65. 3:56personal stories inseparable from
66. 3:57London's public preparations for the
67. 3:59games by 2007 as London's often
68. 4:03embattled organizers were bruised by
69. 4:05budget issues and battered by a hostile
70. 4:07response to the games logo Martine began
71. 4:10to reveal her irrepressible spirit
72. 4:12learning to ski and fly then in May 2008
73. 4:19as Boris Johnson became mayor of london
74. 4:21the Beijing Games provided Martine a map
75. 4:24for her own journey I knew that I had to
76. 4:27do something as a result of losing my
77. 4:28legs that day otherwise to me it would
78. 4:31have been all a complete waste of time
79. 4:32so I was actually looking at the
80. 4:37paralympics in a very new light in a in
81. 4:40a light of a disabled person and looking
82. 4:43at it and thinking and what God wouldn't
83. 4:45it be amazing to do something like that
84. 4:48so I started playing for a Sitting
85. 4:51Volleyball Club
86. 4:52what I did enjoy about it is that you're
87. 4:56not in your chair you know you you move
88. 4:58on on the floor it's very dynamic game
89. 5:00very fast game I came into politics in
90. 5:052010 Britain elected its youngest prime
91. 5:07minister in nearly 200 years with little
92. 5:11experience herself Martine tried out for
93. 5:13the first gb sitting volleyball team she
94. 5:16was selected to play in the World
95. 5:18Championships in a chilling coincidence
96. 5:21they traveled to the tournament in the
97. 5:23USA and she lie the seventh that's when
98. 5:27I sort of realized oh my god I could be
99. 5:31on such a special journey on you know I
100. 5:36could actually end up at the paralympics
101. 5:40as the mood turned roared you are in the
102. 5:43riots of 2011 it was a tense time for
103. 5:46Martine and her teammates who still had
104. 5:49to persuade the british paralympic
105. 5:50association they were good enough to
106. 5:52appear at the games the news they
107. 5:54dreamed of finally came in March 2012 I
108. 5:57just think back and I actually can't
109. 6:01believe the journey that
110. 6:04has happened and is happening now that
111. 6:07I'm on you know maybe I was always meant
112. 6:11to get up late that morning maybe I was
113. 6:13always meant to run up the escalator and
114. 6:16jump on that carriage that I got on you
115. 6:18know maybe I was always meant to do this
116. 6:20journey I don't know I can't I can't
117. 6:22answer that all i can say is that i'm
118. 6:26just lucky to be living this dream now