sexta-feira, 16 de maio de 2008

Cheri Blauwet: a four-time Paralyimpic medalist

Cheri Blauwet is a paraplegic and a wheelchair runner. She wants to become a developmental paediatrician to help disabled children.
She is from Iowa, USA, she lived on a farm. She lost her legs when a tractor ran over them and when she was a little girl. Her parents made everything to make her independent.
When she started to like wheelchair racing, she went to Arizona University, and after that she went to Argentina where she lived with other athletes who helped her, sometimes, when she needed.
Cheri thinks that disabled people are stronger and they can be independent and self-confident, however other people don’t think like her, those people think that disabled people need help all the time.

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