Raquel combines training sessions and competitions with her work as an architect at a studio in Barcelona. Her vitality and enthusiasm are infectious, and her cheerful, straightforward nature makes her a wonderful character.
Our Pirates received an unexpected visit by Miguel Indurain, winner of the Tour de France five consecutive times, who spent the day with our protagonists.
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Watch our short film telling the story of the Amazing Lyn Levitt. We asked her to compose the music for Imparables and after we got to know her we felt we had to share her story. She is a proud member of The British Paraorchestra. I hope you enjoy the film.
Paco, a member of the Genesis cycling club in Barcelona, had a massive surprise the day he turned up at the Velodrome and found his hero Miguel Indurain there to greet him. (thanks Miguel)
Unfortunately shortly after the visit, Paco lost his battle with Cancer. He had managed to survive longer than the doctors […]
Lyn Levett is our new Unstoppable, and deservedly so. A central member of the Paraorchestra (an orchestra formed by people with various degrees of disability), which performed during the 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony, hers is an inspiring story that we found particularly outstanding.
As her profile on the Paraorchestra website says, it all began […]
Lee Chang-hoon is legally blind and a newsreader for South Korea’s biggest broadcaster KBS.The 27-year-old, the world’s first blind news anchor, uses a Braille instrument to read the news. Now seven months into the job, Lee says his biggest challenge is his posture and facial expressions on air as he cannot see what he looks like.
Nicholas was born without his right arm and forearm. He started studying piano at 14yo and now he will play at the opening ceremony at the Paralympic Games. Read the story of this amazing Unstoppable.
Isidre Esteve is a Catalan rally competitor who, when he had already participated in the Dakar nine times, had an accident that caused him paraplegia. His struggle, attitude and control of life led him to return to Dakar and create a foundation to help other people.
At 21, David Constantine took a few months off from his agricultural studies in the UK to travel round Australia with his camera and surfboard. His holiday ended – and his life as he knew it changed forever – on a trip to Fraser Island one hot Sunday in February 1982. David dived into a shallow pool and broke his neck.
A bit about him: Nobuyuki was born blind but with a talent for music. At the age of two, he began to play “Do Re Mi” on a toy piano after his mother had been humming the tune. He began his formal study of piano at the age of four.
Hero, icon, legend, and inspiration are just a handful of superlatives one can bestow on Alessandro (Alex) Zanardi, the two-time CART champion and more recently, Paralympic Gold Medallist in London 2012.
Zanardi’s car racing career never really got going despite several cracks at Formula One in the early 1990s before he was hired by […]
This is Richie Parker. He’s a number of things: car enthusiast, engineer, employee, son. He’s a normal guy for his age, working a job in a field he loves. Oh, he also happens to have no arms.
