A professional skier gets into a life-changing car accident the day he discovers he has qualified for the Olympics. After losing a leg in the wreck, the athlete sinks into a deep depression- until one day he is offered a chance to try his luck with the country's Paralympic team.
Moroccan paralympic gold medalist Azzedine Nouiri is no longer looking for the longest throw, but to overthrow the system that keeps athletes with different abilities marginalized as destitute second-class citizens.
On the cusp of turning 40, wheelchair badminton champion Nina Gorodetsky, has her first and maybe last, chance to participate in the Paralympics. However, she is negotiating a ticking biological clock both as a mother and as an athlete. What would she be willing to sacrifice to realize her Olympic dream?
As an athlete with an impairment drives his 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son to run one of their first triathlon races, he recalls the most difficult challenge he ever faced: an Ironman; one of the most strenuous physical and mental races involving 3.8 km of swimming, 180 km of biking and a run of 42 km, in a single day. The movie explores how children perceive this crazy idea.
The film director Niko von Glasow undertakes a journey to athletes, who compete at the Paralympic Games in London 2012. He himself is a short-armed avowed hater of sport who cannot understand how anyone could take on such an odeal voluntarily. Even more since everyday life for people with a disability is most often challenging enough. He meets U.S.archer Matt Stutzman, Norwegian table tennis player Aida Dahlen, German swimmer Christiane Reppe, Greek boccia player Greg Polychronidis and a Sitting Volleyball team. Niko neither spares the athletes nor himself asking questions about life, sport and fears. With an ever growing appreciation for sport Niko attends the Paralympic Games and travels back to the ancient city of Olympia, where everything began and where boccia playing is prohibited.
The true story of Cheah Liek Hou, badminton athlete who won the 2020 Paralympic gold medal under the guidance of Rashid Sidek.
Une chronique captivante sur l'origine des Jeux Paralympiques en 1948. Un docteur allemand voyage aux Royaume-Uni pour transformer la vie de ses patients : des soldats paralysés laissés-pour-compte, à l'article de la mort en raison de négligences. Cette grande avancée verra le jour lorsque ce docteur introduira le sport dans leur rééducation.
Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
L'histoire vraie d'une athlète, cinq fois médaillée aux jeux paralympiques qui, suite à un accident, se voit perdre la plupart de sa vue. Condamnée à ne plus jamais courir, elle va redoubler d'efforts pour retrouver sa place au sein de la compétition.
Du Yeong est un athlète de judo compétent, promis à un brillant avenir. Mais suite à un incident durant un match, il perd la vue. Complètement anéanti, il n'a plus le goût de vivre et reste cloîtré chez lui. Quant à Du Sik, il est en prison pour fraude. Pour sortir sur parole, il n'a d'autre choix que d'utiliser la triste condition de son frère. En réalité, les deux frères ne s'entendent pas très bien, ils ne se sont pas vus depuis presque 15 ans. Mais pour ne pas retourner en prison, Du Sik va devoir s'occuper de Du Yeong pendant un an, cependant les choses restent tendues entre eux. Pourtant Du Sik va redonner à son petit frère le courage de continuer à vivre en surpassant son handicap.