Wheelchair Sports NSW/ACT’s Post

Transcript

Eliza Liza, lovely to meet you. It was shortly after the Sydney Paralympic Games. I actually went to a come and try day, which was hosted by Wheelchair Sports and I got into one of those race chairs and I just absolutely, I fell in love with the sport. It was like coming home was like your mob essentially. Sport, I think played a huge part in my in my recovery. Do you have a lot of pride now? You must that like knowing that you've done that role for other people that look to you now? Yeah, I think the beautiful thing about our. Community, and it really is a community we talk about like those common try days and we talk about, you know, that old equipment that's sitting around. It's not just old equipment. Yeah, with that equipment actually comes with the history. And in fact, so GI help us with the loan equipment program. And these chairs all have stories. You know, there there's history and there's stories and there's memories in each of them. And now that our juniors are jumping in these chairs and having that same experience, it's pretty special, isn't it? Absolutely. And you know, we love to see that at competition because they've got pride in that and it it's not just a an old wheelchair. For them, it's somebody's chair and this used to be Kurt Fearnley's chair, this used to be Louise Savage's chair, this used to be Manny do Rizarios chair. So who's chair? If we got in here at the moment, we've got that blue one over there. I reckon that was a Kurt Fearnley show because there's only a couple of people that could squeeze into a chair that size. This was another one of my old chairs, stunned New York and Boston and London marathons. If these chairs could talk, there's just so much history in them. And what can we do better, do you think? To grow wheelchair track and road here and wheelchair sport more generally in the ACT. Keep getting out there into the communities, you know, talk about it. Go to schools, go to rehab centres. Just share, share our sport. Well, now we've got a new advocate in Unix. So yeah, you can help spread the word. Spread the word. Get the team down to Tuggeranong. Do you go? Yeah.