2020 Summer Paralympics

Isn't he the one who has-

Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

Oh, yes, he's got-

Yes.

Did you keep the hurdle?

[laughs] Yeah, which would, which object was kept there? You've included the mascot, this is from the Special Olympics, and Jason Smyth's gold medal from the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

Yeah, I mean, the Special Olympic World Games being held here in 2003 was an immense moment for Irish sport, and it went beyond those couple of weeks-

Yeah

I'm your host, Alison Tyra, and today I'm joined by Dr. Georgia Moreau-Cook, a research fellow in the Center for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University here in Australia, and author of Building the WNBA, From Dunking Divas to Political Leaders.

Regular listeners may recall Georgia from our previous conversation about women disability in sport, and she's also a wheelchair basketball player, member of the Australian Gliders wheelchair basketball team, and captain of Australia's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

Now I feel like I should know more about the WNBA given that I grew up in Indiana where basketball is really popular and I'm from Indianapolis, home of the Fever.

I have been to Fever games.

Aliens, kaiju, mystical creatures, all of that merge and interact with humans.

The Hiki's website also states that he's the original creator and writer of for this series which has been running it since about september 2019 they also have credits for scripts of another youtube anime short series it's a gag economy gag comedy called teko penguin Yoshihiro Hiki also wrote the narration for a couple of sports for the NHK broadcast of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

They wrote the narration of wheelchair tennis and table tennis.

You know, here's how the sport works.