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Reuters
2 hours ago
- Health
- Reuters
Skier Lindsey Vonn ‘feels amazing' in Olympic comeback at 40
Lindsey Vonn, the American skier making a bid to get back to the Olympics at age 40, said Wednesday (May 21) that her body felt better than it did seven years earlier when she last competed at the Games.
The Guardian
9 hours ago
- Health
- The Guardian
World's fastest 75-year-old woman: 'Never think that you're too old'
Sarah Roberts is the fastest over-75 woman in history over 800m, 1500m and 3,000m. She started running aged 67 when she was introduced to parkrun while on holiday with her husband in Cape Town in 2017. She now hold a series of world records.
Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Birmingham teen and double-amputee international race ending goes viral
An inspiring double-amputee teenager from Birmingham has been praised by thousands of people after footage of her finishing an international race went viral. Daisy-May Demetre from Birmingham had both of her lower legs amputated at just 18 months old, but has spent her childhood showing that there is no limit to what she can achieve - including competing in races, modelling for major brands and doing talks to raise awareness. Last weekend, Daisy-May took part in Greece's Spetsathlon 2025, a mass sporting event that takes place on the island of Spetses, drawing international crowds. READ MORE: 'I swapped my high-flying role and company car to patrol the streets of Birmingham' Footage of the 14-year-old crossing the finishing line on May 17, cheered on by residents and and holiday-makers in cafes along the race route, has since gone viral, bringing Daisy-May's story to the world. You can watch the footage in the video at the top of this story. Daisy-May ran the 5k race within the three-day event, and footage of her crossing the finish line, aided by her dad Alex Demetre, racked up more than 161,000 views on her Instagram page, which has 125,000 people following her journey. "I like to inspire people that they can be themselves, we are normal people and we are exactly like everyone else" Daisy-May told BirminghamLive after the race. Daisy-May was born with born with fibular hemimelia – a birth defect in which the calf bone is missing. She shot to fame in 2018 when she became the face of River Island, and has since walked the catwalk at London Fashion Week and is starring in Birmingham Fashion Week later this year. The determined youngster also won the Child of Courage award at Pride of Birmingham 2019 - touching hearts across the region. Daisy-May's dad Alex told BirminghamLive his daughter completed the Spetses race with "strength, pride, and determination" and described an "electric atmosphere" as people watched her fight to make the finish line. "It was a crazy reaction, my dad was carrying me, I am glad, it was really hard and my dad carried me for some of it" Daisy-May said. "The atmosphere was amazing everyone was cheering her" added Alex. "Team work makes the dream work." Recalling the battle to get to the finish line, Daisy-May told BirminghamLive: "It was hard. "I like doing these sorts of challenges like climbing mountains. "I do acting, some modelling, I like giving talks to people." Despite having both of her lower legs amputated at just 18 months old, an issue that was picked up on her 20-week scan, Daisy-May began modelling and training gymnastics at a young age. Dad Alex, told BirminghamLive: "When she was born I ended up turning to drinking, we found out when my partner was pregnant that she would have to have amputations. "It broke me." Now in year 10, Daisy-May said she only models and runs on her blades so she can raise awareness and encourage others that they face no barriers. She spends her time between her mum and dad's houses in Birmingham and in her spare time, travels around Europe to complete competitions or give talks to community groups. Recently Alex and Daisy-May travelled to Tenerife to help with at an inclusive fitness retreat specifically tailored for amputees. Ahead of her appearance at Birmingham Fashion Week in September, Daisy-May said: "I love doing modelling and wearing new clothes. "I wear my blades so that it shows I am an amputee, I just want to show people that no matter what challenges you face you can still inspire people to believe in themselves." Daisy-May has now signed up with an agent to pursue acting, which she hopes will take her into the film and television industry, and will be sitting her GCSEs next year. "I use my prosthetic legs for school, for modelling and racing I use the blades" she added. On her future, dad Alex added: "She was amazing, we have climbed Mount Snowdon together. "The Spetsathlon team are amazing, we will probably go out there next year. "Daisy-May has that drive and determination, you can't teach that, I am always in her ear telling her how great she is. "When she has her prosthetics on they look like normal legs, you would not know it does not affect her life."
CTV News
17 hours ago
- General
- CTV News
Desiree Scott wrapping up international career in hometown
Winnipeg Watch Desiree Scott will play her final international soccer game in front of a home crowd in Winnipeg this weekend.
CNA
a day ago
- Health
- CNA
Alpine skiing-Shiffrin faced PTSD in recovery from Killington crash
NEW YORK :Twice Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder after a grisly crash during a giant slalom race in Killington, Vermont, in November left her with a puncture wound in her abdomen and severe muscle damage. The American wrapped up her season in March with a record-extending 101st World Cup win but wrote in the Players' Tribune on Friday that the crash in Killington - and another suffered at the beginning of 2024 in Cortina - took a mental toll. "Those two crashes maybe built on one another. I talked with my therapist about that, and she let me know that past trauma, or a history of traumatic events, can sometimes affect your reaction to new traumatic events," wrote Shiffrin, who lost her father suddenly in an accident in 2020. "Maybe when I crashed and got that puncture wound, maybe that was kind of a perfect-storm situation for PTSD to take hold. But who knows, really. With all this stuff, there's just a ton of nuance, and so much that we don't know for certain." Shiffrin, who is loved by American fans and praised by her fellow athletes for her upbeat attitude and resilience, said that getting back in the starting gate has helped the most in overcoming "the visions and the images I kept seeing." She wrote that after putting in the work on her mental health, she felt like herself again. "It was just continuing to get back up to the start gate. Just literally the process of going up the mountain and doing the thing I know how to do, again and again," wrote Shiffrin. "I just needed to keep doing it. Needed to keep reminding myself — proving to myself, really — that the vast majority of times when I am training or racing … nothing terrible happens."
