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Mock flowering

Mock flowering

By Fayte CivilPublished about a year ago 3 min read

She has a unique potential and dream from childhood, she wants to be an athlete, hoping to one day participate in the Olympic Games, in order to realize this dream, she studied at the Cape Town girls' sports school from childhood, her appearance is swimming, in the summer of 1998, in South Africa held the African Swimming Championships, She pulled off a stunning upset of the African swimming World champion, Kakel. She was thrilled to be famous in the first world war.

But fate played a cruel trick on her. When she was 17, she was in a car accident and woke up in the hospital with her left leg missing from the knee down. Once in more than a year, she was depressed, sighing, speculating on the fate of adversity, life is impermanent.

She did not dare to go out, because in backward Africa, the disabled are discriminated against, she used to walk alone on the cement floor, but was hit by a few good guys, their ridicule one after another, the young dignity of oppression black and blue, she vowed not to go out, from then on in the home when a embroidery woman, do cooking, cutting clothes, From then on to end the fighting spirit of the lake career.

However, she was born to love moving how to endure the abandonment of her dream, there is a big pool in her backyard, she often plunged into the pool, her mother hurriedly ordered people to fish her out, and she was crying.

At the age of 19, the Cape Town swimming Pool opened a disabled swimming program, she heard the joy, and went to sign up with her mother, she naturally became a member of the South African disabled swimming team, she needs to face high-pressure training, ridicule and even ridicule.

Psychological barrier has always become her shadow, can not let go of her can no longer find the state before the injury, several tests are lost to the last.

Her mother used her spare time to take her to the swimming pool to train, and there were mostly healthy people here, she became a unique scenery here, many people stopped to watch a young girl without a left leg to find her dream in the water, no applause, no applause, no flowers, only the mother's kind eyes.

She insisted in this place for two years, time came to her 21 years old, the South African swimming championships, a disabled girl, unexpectedly defeated the sound swimmers for the first time, got the crown, a time, doping rumors came, everyone thinks this is impossible.

After the news release after the game, was originally her blooming one-act drama, where to think, unexpectedly became the battlefield of blowing hair for correct flaws, reporters lip sword tongue gun questions, aggressive words, this inexperienced girl forced to the edge of the cliff.

At the opening of the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, the young girl broke all the obstacles and successfully qualified for the Paralympics. He won five gold MEDALS in swimming events alone. The show is just beginning, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, she got swimming A mark, but the results are not ideal, Beijing Paralympic Games, he copied the miracle of five gold MEDALS; The swimming hall of the 2012 London Paralympics became her special stage, and on the opening day of the games, she won two gold MEDALS alone. Her body is as light as a fish, swimming in the pool, waving waves, "mermaid" is everyone gave her a good name.

From the "little tadpoles" who suffered from ridicule and no one asked about, grew into a tail of people see people love, omnipotent "mermaid", South African swimming star Natalie experienced the hardships and pain of healthy people, now, disability for her, but into a glory, lost a leg, God gave her confidence, happiness and a better tomorrow.

Smile is a bunch of charming flowers, she aroused everyone's envy, yearning, the original dedication of life's talent and dream, but ridicule is also a flower, it belongs to the flower family, helplessness is her foundation, confidence is her nutrition, hard is her veins, jade clean Bing Qing is its main color, there is such a strong flower in the world, it is not open, When it opens, it will surprise four people and bring the country to its knees.

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