Parasports
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Oct 29, 2026
Dan van den HoekGUEST
But then there's all those lessons as well.
Dan van den HoekGUEST
When you hear everyone's story that gets into para sport, when we watch the Paralympics, it's all about how did the person get injured or, oh, you know, they grew up with this congenital disorder and that's meant that they've had, you know, it's almost like they're presented as a life less than.
Dan van den HoekGUEST
Whereas the guys and girls that I play para sport with now, like, yes, it's an unfortunate story, but the growth and the resilience they show, you know, whether it's an idiot who made a mistake as an 18 year old and had a motorcycle crash, or it's somebody who was born with a tumor on their spine or cerebral palsy, those things don't matter.
Dan van den HoekGUEST
And to them, it's almost just another like challenge.
Dan van den HoekGUEST
So I've got a friend, I ran as a support runner for High Rocks.
Dan van den HoekGUEST
There's always an upside.
Dan van den HoekGUEST
Seems to be one of the things.
Dan van den HoekGUEST
The guys that I spend my time with in para sports are always very positive for some reason.
Craig SpenceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And had US athletes then started promoting the war and things like that then we'd have had a different scenario but in what happened with russia and ukraine and the reasons for their suspension was very different to usa and israel and it's all about the obligations we don't ban countries just because they're at war if we did there'd be 50 or 60 countries potentially on our naughty step you've got to stick everyone's personal feelings.
Craig SpenceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You always have to stick to the rules of your constitution and our constitution said you can't use Parasport as a vehicle to promote wars and such like.
Chris BrownHOST
Here's Paul with his final reflections on the involvement of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Winter Paralympics.
Paul McInnesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, the response to all the Russian podiums was kind of polite silence.
Hilary LeBlancHOST
And I'm curious, Victoria.
Hilary LeBlancHOST
So is there anywhere that, you know, Paris sport being a Paralympian has informed your like day-to-day life or areas where you've seen that how you've navigated that can trickle into day-to-day life and what you've experienced just in general society? Yeah.
Victoria NolanGUEST
Yeah, I learned so much from, well, from para sport, but I think it's really sport in general.
Victoria NolanGUEST
If you think of the role of a coach, their job is to take the athletes and figure out how to make each individual excel, right? So everyone's got different strengths.
Victoria NolanGUEST
It's just that you're dealing with, you know, a physical disability and you're figuring out how can we strengthen them to minimize that impact and so if we apply that to everyday life i mean in our communities in our workplaces in our schools focusing on how can we strengthen this individual what can we provide to make them excel that's how we should be looking at things
Hilary LeBlancHOST
100 100%.
Hilary LeBlancHOST
And speaking of Parasport, I also noticed this year, and I just wondered if you had a quick comment on, it felt like this year with the Olympics that just went by, maybe a bit because of the Made in Canada movement, I felt for once that people also seemed really excited about the Paralympics.
Hilary LeBlancHOST
And sometimes it feels like they aren't regarded the same way, unfortunately, which to me feels... like such a demerit as a society.
Libby TrickettHOST
A lot has been said about those big ticket items of stadiums and venues.
Libby TrickettHOST
And as part of that, We'd really, I guess, just love to understand from you about the investment in Parasport and what will come as part of those upgrades.
Libby TrickettHOST
Well, I think prepare yourself for another seven hours of chat around
Anika WellsGUEST
Brisbane 2032.
John MulliganHOST
So, I mean, that must have been just an incredible experience for you.
Shauna BocquetGUEST
You know, I've done a couple of the NL now over the last couple of years and I know it's an honour to be invited to those events because it's great to get, and also it's great to get Parasport out there and involved in those sort of meetings because they're, some of the biggest meetings in the world of athletics.
Shauna BocquetGUEST
So it's definitely an honor.
Shauna BocquetGUEST
Whenever I get an invite to one of them, it's a great honor.
Dave SpositoHOST
... that we'll get to.
Dave SpositoHOST
Ken will join us later in the show, and then w- we're gonna be, uh, chatting with our friends from, uh, Parasport.
Molly AllenHOST
Yeah.
Dave SpositoHOST
Yeah.
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Molly AllenHOST
It starts Saturday?
IsaiahGUEST
Starts Saturday.
IsaiahGUEST
Parasport-
Molly AllenHOST
8:00 AM.
Michael Gillen-PeckettHOST
And I thought that was worth mentioning.
Michael Gillen-PeckettHOST
I don't talk about sports a lot, but I've noticed recently Japanese media has been paying quite a lot of attention to para sports, which is cool.
Michael Gillen-PeckettHOST
The Asian Games, by the way, in case you didn't notice or know about it, is essentially the sort of Japanese equivalent of the Commonwealth Games, if you're British, or, you know, the Olympic Games, just Japan only, as it were, or Asia only, I suppose.
Michael Gillen-PeckettHOST
And they've been paying a lot of attention to the para sports version, which begins on October the eighteenth and runs through to October the twenty-fourth.
Michael Gillen-PeckettHOST
So I just thought I'd host about it.
Michael Gillen-PeckettHOST
Thank you for listening.
Dave SpositoHOST
So those are a few of the things that we'll get to.
Dave SpositoHOST
Ken will join us later in the show, and then we're going to be chatting with our friends from Parasport.
Dave SpositoHOST
Yeah.
Dave SpositoHOST
Yeah, in just a bit.
Janet McMordieHOST
Trust me on this one.
Janet McMordieHOST
And also I do a lot of work with Parasport, as I think some of you know already, with our Paralympians through Team Canada.
Janet McMordieHOST
And I'm now the team doctor with our men's national wheelchair basketball team.
Janet McMordieHOST
So I was with them for the last like two and a half weeks.