Last night I was privileged to be in the company of Ade Adepitan MBE a member of the bronze medal winning 2004 British Paralympic Basketball team (and Gold in the 2005 World championships) and Ambassador for the 2012 games.
This young man spoke of how although crippled by polio, sport had overcome the things that could have conspired to worked against him. As a result of his engagement in sport, colour, disability and an afro' hairdo and pink trousers that were him as a child had given way to a self-possessed credibility and kudos that he almost otherwise would never have had.
There are many who are negative about the 2012 olympics but from it there will surely be youngsters who find their dream to be an olympian (or paralympian) starting with the games and for some, this will be the start of them overcoming obstacles and rising about difficulties most of us will never know.
So often we find people who bemoan their situation and overlook the fully able bodies and minds that they possess and this only makes the company, and witness, of men like Ade all the more impressive and motivating.
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