Natalie du Toit ready to make Olympic history
"It was a freak accident. When I was riding home from a swimming practice on a motor scooter, a car drove into my leg. I didn't know what would happen. But I had a dream of being part of the Olympic Games and seeing how well I could do. I didn't ever think that I wouldn't make the Olympic Games.
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Natalie du Toit is possibly one of the most inspirational people you could ever hope to meet.
ConquerorAs a teenager, the South African athlete garnered a lot of attention as she fired across the swimming pool. Although she missed qualifying for the Sydney Olympic Games, she shrugged it off,
iteams looking forward to Athens for her Olympic debut. After all, she was only 16 at the time. With this goal in mind, she trained tirelessly. However, only one year after the Sydney Games, while she was working towards an appearance in Athens, a car accident put her in the hospital with a serious leg injury.
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Rather than allow this to bring her down, she was back in the pool four months later.
WoW S4"I knew I had no muscle, I had no fitness. I had nothing basically. That is why I had to build up all my fitness again," she said, with determination.
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Not long after climbing back into the water, she earned the world's admiration by being the first
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Although she wears a prosthetic on land, "while swimming, I can be free of any prosthetic limb,"
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Her dream of competing in the Olympic Games will come true on Wednesday,
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"I am not the first ever amputee to qualify for the Olympics.
wow power level There is an American gymnast George Eyser who won six medals in the 1904 Olympics with a wooden prosthesis for his left leg," said Natalie modestly.
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powerleveling She talks to groups about her experience, urging listeners to be all that they can be. "It is important to swim your own race and not someone else's" is one of her most memorable quotes.
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In the past ten days, she has been
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"Beijing is an amazing city.
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Her favorite Fuwa? "I like Beibei and Huanhuan most. Beibei symbolizes
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