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Monday Mini: The 2024 Summer Paralympics · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and smitha I walk my stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I never told you production of Buy Heart Radio and
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  Speaker 1: today is September fifth, twenty twenty four. I had to
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  Speaker 1: think about it for a second, but I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: put that in there because we're going to do our
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  Speaker 1: first episode on the Paralympics. We'll probably come back and
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  Speaker 1: do more on it the Paralympics that are happening now
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  Speaker 1: in Paris twenty twenty four Summer Para Olympics. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can see our past episodes we've done on the
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  Speaker 1: Olympics and Para Olympics. One of the things we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to touch on in this one, which is probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a bit shorter, is something we did talk about
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  Speaker 1: when we did our wrap up on the Olympics in
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  Speaker 1: Paris twenty twenty four, about how they've been really touting
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  Speaker 1: like gender equity and what that looks like for the Paralympics. So,
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  Speaker 1: as of recording, women represent about forty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: athletes at the twenty twenty four Paaralympics, and if we
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  Speaker 1: look back at the Winter Pair Olympics, they made up
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  Speaker 1: only twenty four percent of athletes, So still some work
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  Speaker 1: to do when it comes to leadership. In twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: is six of the fourteen International Paralympic Committee Governing board
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  Speaker 1: members were women. On top of that, only a small
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  Speaker 1: number of the National Paralympic Committee presidents are women or
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  Speaker 1: the NPC. A recent report found that of one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy n PC presidents, twenty six were women. So
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty significant and this has been a problem despite
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  Speaker 1: the fact that women have been involved in the Paralympic
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  Speaker 1: movement since its inception. Over the years, there have been
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  Speaker 1: multiple attempts to address this. In two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: the Sport Committee was established to look into not just
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  Speaker 1: the lower number of women athletes, but also the lower
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  Speaker 1: number of women in coaching, officiating, and other leadership positions.
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  Speaker 1: They also announced a goal that quote, all entities belonging
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  Speaker 1: to the Paralympic Movement shall immediately establish a goal to
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  Speaker 1: have at least thirty percent of all offices in their
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  Speaker 1: decision making structures be held by women by two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine. Unfortunately, that goal remains unachieved even now. Over
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  Speaker 1: the years, they have released a handful of reports looked
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  Speaker 1: into barriers, strategies around awareness and education tools. They've increased
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  Speaker 1: quotas for women, introduced gender free quotas, and added more
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  Speaker 1: metal events for women. And these efforts do seem to
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  Speaker 1: be working, just very very slowly and with some mixed
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  Speaker 1: results based on sports. So some are more equitable and
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  Speaker 1: some are quite literally two percent women, so it depends
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  Speaker 1: on sport. There's also been some back and forth around
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  Speaker 1: like they try to program around having mentorships with women,
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  Speaker 1: and at the end of that program, one of the
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  Speaker 1: spokespeople essentially said, we weren't clear on our goals, so
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  Speaker 1: we can't even say if we achieved them. So I
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  Speaker 1: think there's been just a lot of like how do
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  Speaker 1: we deal with this? What's the best way to go
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  Speaker 1: about this? And people are still looking into it, and
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  Speaker 1: there have been a couple of things, some of them
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  Speaker 1: very specific and localized, that have shown more success, but
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  Speaker 1: it is something very much that is still being worked on.
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  Speaker 1: But okay, let's talk about some of what has happened
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  Speaker 1: at the twenty twenty four Summer Paralympics in Paris. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a very small list because it's ongoing, so
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  Speaker 1: as always, listeners please write in have anybody you want
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  Speaker 1: us to talk about anything we should talk about there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cool stuff going on, and let us
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  Speaker 1: start with wheelchair rugby. So Sarah Adams made history as
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  Speaker 1: the first American woman to compete in wheelchair rugby, which
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  Speaker 1: is mixed gender but male dominated, and it is also
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  Speaker 1: kind of generally seen as like one of the roughest
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  Speaker 1: sports if you watch it, yeah, yeah, you know, like stale. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but she's been knocking it out of the park, racking
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  Speaker 1: up points. She's gotten a lot of credit for helping
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  Speaker 1: secure several wins. Australia their team has three women. Japan,
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  Speaker 1: Denmark and Germany all have women players. At eight players represented.
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  Speaker 1: This is twice the number of women at the Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: Paralympic Games, but obviously that number is still small when
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  Speaker 1: compared to the eighty eight male competitors. And this is
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of interesting things going on here because,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, it is the gender free quota. It's
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  Speaker 1: an example of that which can work out and can
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  Speaker 1: it depends. It depends on the sport how that has looked.
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  Speaker 1: But it basically it removes the quota for women, which
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  Speaker 1: sometimes allows for more women and sometimes does not in
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  Speaker 1: an attempt to level the playing field. Also, wheelchair Rugby
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  Speaker 1: has a rule that awards teams that field women extra points,
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  Speaker 1: which I believe helped the US win one of their matches.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically like, you get a little bit extra if
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  Speaker 1: you have a woman on the field, So that's something
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  Speaker 1: that they're trying. India's Pretty pal became the first Indian
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  Speaker 1: to double medal at a Paralympics game, earning bronze medals
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  Speaker 1: and the one hundred meter and two hundred meter races.
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  Speaker 1: She was born with cerebral palsy and has dreamed of
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  Speaker 1: competing since she learned para athletes existed when she was eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: She has really great quotes and interviews about it where
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  Speaker 1: she was like, I didn't know this was a thing,
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  Speaker 1: and then she got some really great mentors. She's just
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  Speaker 1: like someone who has a lot of good quotes and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of like they told me I couldn't do it, Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what I did it? She should watch me well
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  Speaker 1: and then she was correct. She was corrects. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's Italy's Valentina Petrillo, who became the first out transgender
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  Speaker 1: runner to compete in the Paralympics, participating in the four
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  Speaker 1: hundred meter T twelve final she failed to qualify but
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  Speaker 1: achieved a personal best, and she will also be competing
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  Speaker 1: in the two hundred meter. It's important to note the
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  Speaker 1: first out runner because there was a transgender athlete that
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  Speaker 1: was at Rio the Rio Games, as was clarified because
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  Speaker 1: it's been misreported a lot. But we shall see how
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  Speaker 1: that goes. But yeah, that's just a small handful of
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. And I actually went on a rabbit
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  Speaker 1: hole of of people. We should come back and talk
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  Speaker 1: about history wise, right because right now we're kind of
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  Speaker 1: focusing on the current current games. But I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at some of the women in the past who really
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  Speaker 1: blaze their way, and I think we should come back
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  Speaker 1: and talk about that. We definitely should. We definitely should.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, listeners, again, if you have any
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