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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 20th February 2026 - with Gemma Stevenson, Paracheer champion, sports media presenter and LTA tennis coach · The PCR Sports Show

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  Welcome to PCR Sports. Good evening and welcome to
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  another edition of the PCR Sports Show here on PCR FM.
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  Thank you for joining us for the start of your sporting weekend.
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  I'm Neelesh. And as always on our show, which
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  is every Friday between 6:00 and 7:00, we're here to shine a
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  light on the clubs, athletes and volunteers who keep our sporting
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  community thriving. If you're involved in a local
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  sport, this is your hour and tonight is no different.
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  We're joined this evening by Gemma Stevenson who is let's
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  start here. I've got a long list of
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  descriptions that Gemma's given me.
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  She's an ICU world champion, an athlete, journalist, presenter
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  and also a young ambassador. So no doubt we'll be covering
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  many of those subjects during the course of the next hour or
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  so. But first, let's cover off those
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  local sporting headlines this evening with DIPAM.
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  Thank you very much. Thank you Nilesh, good evening
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  Peterborough and these are your sporting headlines for this
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  evening on PCR Sports starting with football.
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  Peter United suffered back-to-back defeats on their
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  travels to Yorkshire over the past week.
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  The Posh went down to nil last Saturday and followed it up with
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  a 21 loss at Barnsley on Tuesday evening.
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  Despite Cairo Lisby giving them the lead.
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  They return to action tomorrow as Exeter City make the trip to
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  the Western Home Stadium. Peter United Women fixture at
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  Stourbridge was postponed last Sunday, however Wednesday
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  evening's name neen Derby at Pyms Park went ahead with Posh
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  running out comfortable three nil winners, goals from Kira
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  Rye, Kia Perkins and Jess Russo sealed the victory.
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  They're back in action on Sunday with a league trip to Lee Field
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  Athletic. Peterborough Sports were beaten
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  3 one at home by Spennymoor Town last Saturday, with Luka Miller
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  netting his 10th goal of the season.
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  Sports travel to Manchester to face Radcliffe tomorrow before
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  heading to Bedford Town on Tuesday evening.
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  In ice hockey, Peterborough Phantoms had a busy week with
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  three fixtures and mixed results.
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  The Phantoms began the trip with the to face Telford Tigers last
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  Saturday which ended in a 74 defeat.
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  They responded the following day with a strong four one home win
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  over Solway Sharks, however they however the Wednesday evening's
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  clash at Planet Ice saw Romford Raiders claim a 52V.
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  This weekend the City side face face a double header against
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  Bristol Pitbulls, starting with the away trip to Bristol on
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  Saturday before returning home on Sunday with the face off at
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  5:30 PM. Luke Ferreras has celebrated
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  becoming the Peterborough Phantom's all time record goal
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  scorer with a hat trick on Sunday at night against
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  Southwest Sharks. Ferrerara had already surpassed
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  Alice Padaleck's previous club record of four 248 goals during
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  Saturday's 74 National League defeat at Telford Tigers.
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  His three goal performance on Sunday took his overall tally to
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  252 goals, which is a remarkable milestone for The Phantoms
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  forward in field hockey. The women's first will stand
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  outside, winning two nil away at Cambridge City thanks to brace
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  from Hannah Grimshaw 1 field goal and one penalty corner the
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  field. The result extends their lead at
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  the top of the table to seven points with five games of
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  reigning. They host Spalding first this
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  Saturday. Elsewhere there were wins for
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  the men's thirds, the 4th and the 6th, while women's seconds
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  and thirds and fourths all picked up draws.
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  The men's first had no National League fixture but returned to
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  return this Saturday at 6:00 PM at Bretton Gate, hosting
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  Nottingham University, who sit one point above them in the
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  table. This weekend's home fixtures
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  start at 10:00 AM with the women's fifths and conclude with
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  the Men's 1st at 6:00 PM. And on Sunday the club look
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  forward to hosting Wisbech and Pelicans for a mini hockey
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  tournament featuring the Under Eights, the Under 10's and the
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  Under twelves which promises to be a fantastic day of junior
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  hockey in cricket. City based cricket and recent
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  guest Nick Andrews played a key role in another Silver Ashes
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  triumph for England. The England Over 70s cricket
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  team retained the Over 70s Ashes with a clean sweep in the three
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  in three one day matches in Adelaide.
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  Andrew plays his club cricket for Market Deeping, featured in
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  all three games. England now have travelled to
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  New Zealand for the Over 70s World Cup.
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  The defending champions, having won on home side in 2024, began
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  their title defence against India with a victory in
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  Christchurch. Today they will also face
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  Canada, Australia, Sri Lanka and the United States, New Zealand
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  and the rest of the World. 11 in a round Robin tournament with
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  the top 2 progressing to the final at Hadley Oval in
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  Christchurch In Boxing City. Boxer Shay Gowler's promising
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  explosive action as he makes his professional debut at super
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  lightweighting Doncaster at the end of March.
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  The 20 year old believes that the time is right to turn
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  professional after an impressive amateur career.
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  Peter were born and bred. Gowler claimed national title,
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  won at prestigious Haringey Box Cups and represented England
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  internationally. The former Police Boxing Club
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  fighter bows out of the amateur ranks with around 50 wins from
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  his 65 contest so far as he prepares to step into the paid
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  ranks for the first time. And in Amir Khan Academy and Top
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  Yard Boxing Club talent Demolition, Dan Connors made it
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  eight wins from 8 bouts as he claimed gold at the New Era
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  Boxing Club Cup at Bain Tree Leisure Centre.
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  Connors went straight into the under 38 semifinals where he
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  faced Tommy Smith of Kent Boxing Club, progressing to the final
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  and the victory over Jason Davis of the Royston Boxing Club and
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  it secured him another unanimous points to win him his first gold
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  in his promising young career. And he's only 11 years old in
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  athletics. Maxwell enjoyed a superb outing
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  at the Eastern Masters Indoor Championships at Lee Valley,
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  claiming three goals, competing in the over 35 category.
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  Hall 1 High Jump with a clearance of 1.7 meters added
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  added victory in the 60 meter hurdles and topped the podium in
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  the shot. He capped off the weekend with
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  bronze and the long jump as well.
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  Claire Smith struck double in double gold in the over 45
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  sprints, winning both the 200 and the 400 meters in the 200
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  performance, setting a new championship record underlying
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  in an outstanding championships. Meanwhile, Claire's husband
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  Julian also impressed, clocking 7.96 seconds to finish third in
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  the 60 meter and running 25.84 / 200 meters.
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  He later collected a silver medal at the Southern County
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  Championship rounding of a strong set of performances for
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  the couple. Panvac veterans enjoyed a strong
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  championship with multiple medals across the track and
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  field. John Spriggs claimed a double
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  gold in over 70, triple, triple jump and long jump while Dave
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  Brown won the over 35800m gold and Matt Parsons secured the
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  over 45 silver. Simon A Church took over the
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  over 50 shot gold and there was a one and two for Panvac in the
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  over 70 shot with Kevin Bates winning gold ahead of Tim
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  Needham. Jim Gillespie also added the
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  over 60 shot silver to the tally.
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  Panvac's Lawson Capes finished run up in the shop at the Vaxio
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  Indoor Indoor International in Sweden.
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  The 17 year old produced a personal best throw of 17.31
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  meters in the six kilogram shot, finishing just 7 centimeters
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  behind Irish athlete Thomas Hanlon who almost a year who is
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  almost a year older. Another strong performance from
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  one of the region's most prom, most promising young throwers.
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  And finally in snooker, Gary Skipworth made a history on
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  Sunday by becoming the first man to successfully defend the
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  Snooker Shootout title at the Court Club in Breton.
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  The 53 year old defeated Huntington's Richard Appleby
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  Appleley 70 to 18 in the final to lift the Mark Housden Trophy.
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  Next month the tour heads to Broadway Club for the Snooker
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  Classic where 16 players will battle it out for the title.
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  Those are news. Those are your news headlines
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  and backed in Ilesh. Brilliant dipam, thank you very
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  much. So much going on in the city
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  once again, a couple of weeks. Yeah, absolutely amazing.
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  So I mean, the cricket's brilliant.
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  We had Nick on the show a few weeks ago just before he
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  embarked on his trip Down Under. Was looking forward to and very
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  excited by playing in the Ashes and the World Cup and it's great
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  to hear that they won the Ashes. Fantastic achievement.
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  Yeah, going well so far for them and just need the weather to be
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  on the side. I think the first game was off
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  to the rain yeah in the first game yeah against India, they
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  won by 10 wickets so comfortable.
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  Bring our guests in straight away here, Gemma, Peterborough
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  sport. I mean, I'm.
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  Thriving. I'm just wondering if the over
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  70s England team want to go and compete in place of the actual
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  England team in the after section.
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  Given what? Happens.
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  That's a very valid point. And I think Nick did make that
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  comment to me actually a couple of weeks ago.
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  I think when when they'd won the silver Ashes out there in
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  Australia, you said, yeah, what we've done, what the senior men
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  couldn't do, shall we say? Yeah.
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  And during their five match series.
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  So that's a very valid point, Gemma.
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  Brilliant stuff, right? We're just going to take a short
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  break, but we'll be back with Gemma Stevenson and we'll be
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  talking all about the inclusion of disabled people in the sport
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  of cheerleading. You're listening to PCR Sport.
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  Good evening. Welcome back to the PCR Sports
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  Show here on PCR FM. Thank you as always for joining
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  us on this Friday evening. We're here between 6:00 and 7:00
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  highlighting the local clubs, athletes and volunteers who keep
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  our sporting community very much thriving.
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  Tonight is no different. We've got in the studio with us
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  Gemma Stevenson, who when she sent over a notes to me listed
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  of ICU World champion, athlete, journalist, presenter and also a
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  young ambassador for Dystonia UK.
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  Have I pronounced that correctly first of all?
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  Yes, Dystonia is it's a neurological condition.
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  And I remember when actually Dana, I love Dana.
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  She's like the the lead on kind of getting ambassadors involved
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  and dystonia has a reputation of being an older person's
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  condition. So if you think about musicians
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  hand and stuff like that, that's what people naturally associate
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  with dystonia. But it can happen at any age.
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  Mine was as a result of a car crash and a brain injury.
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  But people who follow sport might also know Paralympic
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  swimmer Tully Kearney. So Dana was on a mission to get
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  younger people as ambassadors. Yeah, because she want, she
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  wanted it to be seen as it. You don't just get it when
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  you're over 60, you know people. Can make representation, isn't
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  it? Exactly, you know, and it it, it
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  was wrongly being represented as just something you got in old
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  age. And so it's mine and Tully's job
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  to prove that younger people can thrive with dystonia.
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  Although I don't know whether I'm apparently younger anymore
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  because I'm 40, but you're. Certainly doing that, aren't
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  you? You know, let's let's start with
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  where should we start? The inclusion of disabled people
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  in the sport of cheerleading. Yeah, Para Cheer.
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  Tell us what it's all about. So I first met the man who
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  created Parity, Rick Rogers, in about 2012.
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  We did a wheelchair dance sport course together because he was a
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  former dancer as well, like me, and we've kind of maintained the
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  relationship. And then he created the division
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  of cheerleading called the Adaptive Abilities.
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  Now Adaptive Abilities Cheerleading is where non
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  disabled and disabled athletes can compete together in the
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  sport of cheerleading. They have national teams for
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  England, Scotland, Wales. They go to the World
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  Championships in Florida every year.
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  They're quite successful. I even I went with the one year,
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  I went with the performance side of cheer that year rather than
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  the cheer, cheer side. So I went with the hip hop squad
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  and we won a gold medal. And you're proudly got that in
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  front of you, haven't you? Yeah.
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  Yeah, it does actually sit on the entrance to my flat as well.
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  So like if you go into my flat, my other half like just goes,
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  that is just a wall of you because it's got all my tennis
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  trophies and my cheerleading trophies in and, and I'm like,
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  look, I won them. I worked hard for them.
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  They're going on display. But so I started in the adaptive
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  abilities division and that's how it started.
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  And then sort of about September this year, Rick got back in
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  contact with me. COVID happened and I kind of was
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  like, I need to concentrate on my career.
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  I'm getting older now. I'd quite like a job and a home
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  and not to be, you know, running around the world every so often.
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  As nice as that probably sounds, there's a lot of hard work
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  involved. And so he got in contact with me
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  and he says we're developing A Paralympic cheerleading squad.
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  So the difference with that is there's no non disabled athletes
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  in and every one of us have what is called a Paralympic eligible
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  impairment. So people who don't know
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  Paralympic sport, not every disabled person can compete at
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  the Paralympics. There are 8 sections that you
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  have to, you have to tick one of those eight boxes to be able to
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  compete. Yeah.
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  So not everybody with a disability can compete,
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  obviously skill wise, not everybody can compete.
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  It's like being an Olympian Olympian.
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  Not everybody can be Olympian. So there's that.
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  But there's also, if you, if you don't have one of these disabled
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  disabilities and it is quite strict, you, you're not
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  Paralympic eligible. He knew with me that I'd already
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  been classified into wheelchair tennis.
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  So he's kind of like, I know you're safe.
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  That's a tick box already. I don't think you're going to
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  cause us any problems. So it was just determining what
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  kind of level of disability I was termed as having for
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  cheerleading. So people might be scared about
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  this considering that I am a base in cheerleading.
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  So that's the person that lifts the humans up.
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  I don't actually have any grip. So people are probably listening
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  and going, you're lifting humans up without grip.
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  I have adaptations. So I have these specially
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  designed grip aids that my flyer stands on so that I don't
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  actually have to use my hands to hold them.
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  It's a lot safer for them. And because anybody who knows me
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  seen me attempt to, you know, pick up a pen and drop it on the
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  floor. So would worry my flyer a bit.
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  But it also takes a lot of me going to the gym and
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  conditioning and building strength that that, you know,
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  sometimes dystonia doesn't let you have and, and that's the
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  biggest thing. So with dystonia, it's
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  unpredictable. You don't know when you're going
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  to spasm. So it was an incident at last
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  training only about a week ago. I had the flyer and I went into
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  spasm. She ended up in the splits over
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  my head and I could not move my hand at all and would.
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  That be to catch her effectively.
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  No. So she was in my hands.
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  Right. OK.
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  We also have back spots, which are people who stand just in
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  case the stump falls. Yeah, so my back spot had to go
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  into action and and kind of just go, OK, we're still in this
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  position, let's just get her off.
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  But that's also the the alertness then, isn't it?
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  As well, they've got to be switched on to these occasions
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  that may happen and that's reassuring for you as well as
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  your other athletes. I mean, yeah, as much as it's,
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  you know, I have a really good flyer.
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  She's called Anna Lee. She's 14 and the talent this
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  girl has as a teenager is incredible.
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  Like she's so good and she can always see ways round and I'm
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  like, you're going to be fantastic.
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  And it's great to see that there.
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  You know, there are those 14 year olds in the squad because
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  as I said, I'm 40, I'm not I'm not going to be around.
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  I'm I'm not going to be around till I'm over 70.
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  It's not going to happen. So so to see the young talent
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  come through as well through this development programme is
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  absolutely brilliant. And and I also have some I also
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  have to have a fully switched on back spot because they have to
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  be ready to go because in para cheerleading, often the bases
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  are the wheelchair users. So, but I have a great, we have
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  stunt groups, I have a great stunt group who kind of started
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  to predict when the wobbles are going to happen.
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  So it's very inclusive. That's what's coming across to
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  me very clearly here as well. In terms of the sport itself,
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  it's not just for, you know, disabled people, this, you know,
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  there is a chance here, there's an opportunity here to mix able
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  bodied and disabled people. Into this sport and that's what
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  adaptive abilities is and that's what I would probably credit
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  Rick with doing. So in a lot of Paralympic
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  sports, it's quite cruel. You either are classified in or
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  you're classified out. If you're if you're classified
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  out, you're not non disabled enough to compete with a non
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  disabled team. But then you're there's a
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  campaign called not disabled enough.
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  So I'll use their slogan, you're not disabled enough to compete
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  in Paralympic sports. So it leaves this kind of gap
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  where there's a group of disabled people not able to take
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  part. But what I credit Rick for doing
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  with para cheer is creating that adaptive abilities because you
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  know, we could have somebody come to the para cheer squad.
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  They've been training with us that they're brilliant at what
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  they do. And then just the classification
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  says you're not the right disability, but because Rick has
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  developed first that adaptive abilities, there is a place for
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  them to go. That means that they're not
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  locked out of the sport. And that's what's truly
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  inclusive about cheerleading. Opportunity for everybody,
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  irrespective of ability at that point, and to take part in
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  something that they enjoy and love to do, for example.
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  As well. Just some of the core purposes
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  from the information that you've given me here, for example.
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  So you've talked about this and it's come across loud and clear,
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  I think to promote inclusion and diversity in cheerleading, to
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  give disabled athletes a platform to perform and compete
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  at elite levels. And you've certainly done that
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  because of the medal that you've got there, proudly displayed
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  this evening to build momentum towards Para Olympic sport
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  recognition for cheerleading. That's the point I want to sort
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  of elaborate on is that to get it at say for example, LA 2028,
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  that might be a bit soon, but are we talking getting it to
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  that level? Yeah, I mean, this is the thing.
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  So about 18 months ago, cheerleading was recognised as a
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  sport by Sport England. It was recognised as a sport and
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  there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes to kind of
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  maybe look at it with the Para cheer program.
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  It's being developed by a charity called Cheer For
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  Everyone, which is run by Rick Rogers, and it's been developed
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  there. And it's to say, OK, so we're
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  pushing for it in the Olympics, but guess what?
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  It could be in the Paralympics, too, because actually, and it's
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  also looking to be the first sport in Paralympic history to
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  have every eligible impairment on the floor.
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  OK, the 8 classification. So if you look at the
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  Paralympics, when you watch it, look, you can watch the Winter
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  Paralympics. Yeah, in a few weeks.
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  Often it's only set impairments that are allowed to compete.
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  So wheelchair tennis, yeah. You know, you don't see para
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  standing players or visually impaired players.
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  You only see wheelchair players. Yeah, it's and it wants to be
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  that inclusive. It wants to be like we have, I
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  mean, on our squad at the minute, we have visually
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  impaired athletes, we have athletes with invisible
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  disabilities that, you know, it's really important to have
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  that representation. And we also have wheelchair
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  users. So it's really spreading across.
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  I also have a hearing impairment.
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  I'm not hearing impaired enough to classify for a deaf sport,
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  but and also my hearing impairment is to do with the
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  function of my brain rather than my ears.
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  So I wouldn't classify under there, but it's, you know, that
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  the goal is that you have every impairment represented on that
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  floor in a Paralympic team and. Again, it's coming across.
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  We're breaking down barriers here to make it inclusive the
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  sport more inclusive of cheerleading.
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  Well, yeah, I think if anybody said to you, we've got a
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  cheerleader with no grip, they they would be like, shut up, you
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  know? But that's how it is.
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  And it's what's really is a really supportive space
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  actually, where you try things out.
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  So things will do things it won't work, but you're not
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  judged for that not working. You're not judged for having to
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  go back to the drawing board and say, you know, how do we make
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  this work? So the other thing is with my
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  dystonia, I'm, I have Hemi dystonia, which is my right side
• 20:06
  affected predominantly. So even things like twists and
• 20:08
  turns, if you ask me to turn to the left, I'm fine if you ask me
• 20:11
  to turn to the right. So it's things like changing the
• 20:15
  stunts around. So that I can be part of them.
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  And that's part of the adaptiveness of what you're
• 20:21
  trying to achieve here. Yeah.
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  And is, you know, some of the time it ends up making a
• 20:26
  beautiful look on stage because then we've got opposites and
• 20:28
  opposites and it's like, oh, it's like we planned it, but we
• 20:31
  didn't. So, but that's that's the thing.
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  I think it's the supportive atmosphere of this para cheer
• 20:39
  development program and eventually I mean I know the
• 20:42
  hope is we're doing a showcase at worlds this April, which
• 20:46
  World's Championships takes place in Florida in Orlando
• 20:49
  that's. Where you won your medal.
• 20:51
  Yeah, that's where I won my medal what, 7 years ago now?
• 20:53
  Wow. And then the hope is to maybe
• 20:57
  potentially have a showcase at La 2028, OK, that the hope is
• 21:02
  there and the. Olympics or the Paralympics?
• 21:06
  It would probably be the Paralympics start with, which is
• 21:08
  going to be awkward from me because I'm usually there as the
• 21:10
  media and I'm usually there sitting and eating the free cake
• 21:13
  and drinking the free coffee. And I'm going to have to if, if
• 21:16
  that happens, I've got a real crisis.
• 21:19
  Sure, your coach will have a word with you about that, no
• 21:21
  doubt. I'll have the free coffee and
• 21:23
  cake after the actual show case if it does happen.
• 21:26
  But it that will be really weird for me because actually my
• 21:29
  Olympic and Paralympic journey didn't start as a reporter.
• 21:32
  It started at London 2012 and I was a performer in the opening
• 21:36
  ceremony. So my journey over the last sort
• 21:39
  of I sat in Paris and went, this is really weird.
• 21:42
  Like in the last 12 years I've performed in the opening
• 21:44
  ceremony. I've been in the media rooms and
• 21:49
  to see where my journey went from that, you know, they talk
• 21:52
  about the legacy of London 2012. I remember being there, you know
• 21:56
  that that I was. My mum always laughs so I was in
• 21:59
  the NHS section. I'm going to look back actually,
• 22:02
  because the opening ceremony obviously was all over.
• 22:04
  Yeah, I was in the NHS section and she was.
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  So my mum and dad got a chance to watch it live because because
• 22:10
  we found out too late that we were in the opening ceremony,
• 22:12
  there wasn't the chance for them to get tickets.
• 22:14
  So they got invited. The organising committee invited
• 22:16
  them to address rehearsal. So it then resulted in my mum
• 22:19
  and dad watching me on TV hearing the commentary.
• 22:22
  And I remember, I think it was Trevor Nelson actually that was
• 22:26
  doing the the commentary on that day.
• 22:27
  And he went and yeah. And all these people who are in
• 22:31
  this NHS section have given up their time as well as being
• 22:37
  nurses and physiotherapists and working in our NHS.
• 22:41
  And my mum sat there listening to listening to commentary and
• 22:44
  go Gemma faints her blood, she ain't working for the NHS.
• 22:48
  Brilliant stuff, right? We're just going to go to a
• 22:51
  short break here, but we'll be back with the Gemma Stevenson
• 22:54
  and talking more about disabled people in the sport of
• 22:58
  cheerleading. And no doubt we'll probably also
• 23:00
  discuss posh women who Gemma covers and also wheelchair
• 23:06
  tennis as well as Gemma is also a coach here in Cambridgeshire
• 23:09
  for the LTA at Camborne. So back very shortly after these
• 23:14
  messages. You're listening to PCR sports.
• 23:34
  Good evening and welcome back to the PCR Sports Show here on
• 23:37
  PCRFM. Thank you for joining us once
• 23:39
  again. We're chatting to the wonderful
• 23:41
  Gemma Stevenson this evening and she's got quite an array of jobs
• 23:46
  that she does to say the least. But tonight we're talking about
• 23:51
  the inclusion of disabled people in the sport of cheerleading.
• 23:56
  Gemma, you've achieved quite a bit.
• 23:58
  One could say you do not want to sit still is the impression I'm
• 24:01
  getting here. Yeah, I don't like sitting
• 24:03
  still. Even when I'm ill.
• 24:04
  I get told off. I'm like, I will go out and do
• 24:07
  this and yeah, I it's the point. Also in the week I go, I need to
• 24:11
  give myself two days off a week. That never happens.
• 24:14
  Like I The thing is I think. Especially with you so busy at
• 24:16
  weekends with sports. Yeah, no.
• 24:18
  And I tend to say yes to everything which I need to learn
• 24:21
  not to. That's like that's my problem
• 24:23
  sometimes, I think sometimes I need to say your.
• 24:25
  Husband's sitting here, isn't he?
• 24:27
  Or we're not married yet, Sorry. Apologies your.
• 24:29
  Partner's. Sitting here, apologies, getting
• 24:30
  carried away there, but your partner's sitting here and he's
• 24:32
  heard all of that. Yeah, I have given we're not
• 24:35
  married yet. I have given him a hint that we
• 24:36
  are going to be in Florida outside the Disney Princess
• 24:38
  Castle and it might be a good time to get married or propose
• 24:42
  to propose. I have reminded him maybe as a
• 24:45
  big Disney fan, my dream has always been to be proposed to
• 24:49
  outside the Disney Castle. So you know, you know, he's
• 24:51
  hearing it now again. So it's been on radio so we
• 24:54
  can't get out of it. It's.
• 24:55
  Going to let that sink in for us to be honest, as I see his face
• 24:58
  over there in the corner. But no, in all seriousness,
• 25:02
  you're doing such great work in terms of being an ambassador for
• 25:06
  Dystonia UK and showing that, you know, it doesn't have to be
• 25:11
  a barrier. It's a sport generally, you
• 25:14
  know, not just cheerleading that we've talked about and the
• 25:16
  inclusion of disabled people in the sport of cheerleading.
• 25:19
  You know, you're also Alta accredited coach in Camborne for
• 25:23
  tennis as well. And that just shows that, you
• 25:26
  know, despite Dystonia, you're able to still take part in many
• 25:32
  a sport. I think for me, you feel the
• 25:34
  weight of responsibility because I mean, I'm sure people at home
• 25:40
  have read the headlines that are going around about disabled
• 25:43
  people at the minute. You know, a lot of the time I'm
• 25:46
  you're either like me and kind of put on this pedestal and
• 25:48
  saying look what she's doing, or you are a scrounger who's on
• 25:52
  benefits. And that's not what disabled
• 25:53
  people are like. And I think for me, I feel that
• 25:56
  responsibility. I mean, people often say, we'll
• 25:59
  use me as an example, say, but you work, so why can't?
• 26:01
  And I say, yeah, but you've got to understand how the system
• 26:04
  works for disabled people. It's hard.
• 26:07
  I don't rely on the care system. I'm very lucky to not be able to
• 26:10
  have to. I have my other half who's
• 26:12
  brilliant. I have my my mum and my dad who
• 26:15
  are there 24/7. They they allow me to take the
• 26:19
  opportunities to do the work that I do.
• 26:21
  In sports. And you just love sport, don't
• 26:23
  you? And.
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  That's the thing. And I've got this massive, you
• 26:27
  know, they say it takes a village to raise a child.
• 26:29
  It it takes a village to support a disabled person.
• 26:32
  And if you haven't got that support, you can't, you can't.
• 26:35
  And I think especially in the last sort of like 18 months to
• 26:39
  two years, it's been the rhetoric around being disabled
• 26:42
  that's been kind of peddled. It's difficult and it's
• 26:45
  difficult to hear as a disabled person.
• 26:47
  And I think for me, I'm like, I feel that responsibility because
• 26:53
  I think I want to change people's perceptions.
• 26:57
  I don't want this to be people's possession.
• 26:58
  But also I want to respect that there are disabled people who it
• 27:03
  is hard to do what I do. They just physically can't do it
• 27:06
  and they need the support. So that's why I always say I can
• 27:09
  do what I do because of the support I have 24/7 from and my
• 27:16
  family and my friends as well. I mean, like if I start getting
• 27:19
  a bit too sit at home, my friends will go right, come on,
• 27:22
  we're going out to the pub, we're having a drink.
• 27:24
  Or my one of my friends who does actually pay hockey for, for
• 27:27
  Peterborough. He he will call me every time
• 27:32
  there's a quiz on at the hockey club because he wants me for my
• 27:37
  knowledge. He'll go like I need you because
• 27:40
  we're only going to win if you're in my team.
• 27:44
  You spoke there, Jemma, about obviously whether it's the media
• 27:48
  or just generally the world talking about disabilities, talk
• 27:51
  about inclusion, which is great, which you should be.
• 27:54
  But do you think that from what you're saying that do you think
• 27:56
  that with that also becomes a situation where people either
• 28:00
  misunderstand the message, misinterpret it, dilute it and
• 28:03
  therefore you say like say the wrong impression then starts to
• 28:06
  maybe cascade as? Well, yeah, I mean, I think for
• 28:08
  me, not within sport, but the biggest thing is the Motability
• 28:12
  thing that's going on at the minute that we all of a sudden
• 28:15
  get free cars and I'm like, my car isn't free.
• 28:17
  I do have a Motability car, you know, because I have that car, I
• 28:20
  can go and represent the country.
• 28:21
  I can go and have my job and everything.
• 28:24
  And but that rhetoric of we are given a car to help us live
• 28:28
  independent lives, the they are adapted.
• 28:30
  So there were a lot of adaptations to my car.
• 28:33
  I won't go into, it's too technical.
• 28:34
  But without that car, where would I be stuck at home?
• 28:37
  I wouldn't, again, like I've said, the support system, but
• 28:40
  this rhetoric of you get free cars, why is every disabled
• 28:43
  person driving around in a I'm not driving around in a BMW, I'm
• 28:46
  driving around in a Honda. Yeah, you get the car as a
• 28:49
  disabled person that sits in suits you need.
• 28:51
  So if you're driving an Audi, maybe it's because you need the
• 28:54
  space that that Audi gives. You know, I'm, I'm a master,
• 28:57
  like tessellator. I was awful at maths at school,
• 28:59
  but I love tessellation. I think it was because you got
• 29:01
  to colour in shapes. That was like didn't feel like
• 29:03
  matter to me. So I can squeeze wheelchairs and
• 29:06
  number of wheelchairs into a very small space if I need to.
• 29:09
  So I don't go, I don't, I, I know I can survive without this
• 29:13
  huge car. But there are, there are some
• 29:15
  people who can't, you know, they have hoists to help lift.
• 29:18
  I have Matthew, I don't have a hoist.
• 29:19
  I have Matthew, my other half, he's my hoist.
• 29:21
  But, and, and you know, they need to fit those in.
• 29:25
  And I think that's the thing, you know, things that are there
• 29:28
  to help and aid disabled people be able to achieve the way I
• 29:32
  have are, are currently being turned around as a negative
• 29:35
  thing. So going forward to your LTA
• 29:39
  accredited coaching that you do, you effectively coach everybody.
• 29:46
  It's inclusive. Again, you're not just focused
• 29:48
  on, say for example, wheelchair tennis, but you will also coach
• 29:53
  able bodied as well. Yeah, so I coach everybody from
• 29:55
  the age of three to adult to probably about 83.
• 30:01
  I love my adult group. They're brilliant because
• 30:03
  there's no pressure there. They're not going.
• 30:05
  They're they're, they're coming for their week of kind of fun.
• 30:08
  I love coaching my adult group. They're one of my favourite
• 30:10
  groups to and they'll have a laugh and, and they'll have a
• 30:13
  laugh because they'll know I'll start trying to challenge them.
• 30:16
  So I do this coordination exercise where you start with
• 30:19
  one ball and you're just throwing it to each other and
• 30:20
  you're reacting. And then I'll add in 2 balls
• 30:23
  and, and one of my adults said, oh, she's going to add in 4 now.
• 30:26
  And I went, well, now you come to think of it, you just
• 30:28
  mentioned it, but, and I love tennis coaching.
• 30:30
  I love tennis as a sport, like cheerleading.
• 30:33
  It's incredibly inclusive. Like I could get on court with
• 30:36
  my mum and I quite regularly have.
• 30:38
  The only rule change for me and we're playing in a wheelchair is
• 30:40
  that it has two bounces initially.
• 30:42
  I get on court with my mum and she claims that she should have
• 30:45
  two bounces too because she's old.
• 30:47
  But I'm like, no, that doesn't work like that mum.
• 30:48
  But you know, here in Peterborough, I coach, it's a
• 30:52
  young girl. She's, she's 11 years old.
• 30:56
  She, she took up wheelchair tennis and within six months she
• 30:59
  was deemed talented enough to go on the Lt. as regional age group
• 31:03
  program, which is the first kind of rung of the performance
• 31:07
  pathway to eventually becoming maybe a Paralympian in
• 31:09
  wheelchair tennis. I coach her like for about 5
• 31:12
  hours a week. She has to, you know, she has to
• 31:14
  miss time off school to do that. And through her, I've been able
• 31:19
  to see just how far wheelchair tennis has come.
• 31:21
  Because when I started playing, you know, I, I, I played tennis
• 31:25
  all my life. I played at school and, and
• 31:27
  everything like that. But I started playing after my
• 31:29
  car accident. So I was 30 to see how
• 31:33
  wheelchair tennis they've developing the younger side.
• 31:36
  So they're getting kids now younger taking it up.
• 31:39
  And she I'm so jealous of her because she gets national camps,
• 31:43
  She gets, she's going to Bolton this weekend because the LTA,
• 31:47
  she's one of only two girls on the programme.
• 31:49
  As we hear in, you know, pedestrian tennis, it's a
• 31:52
  struggle and, and sport in general, it's a struggle to get
• 31:55
  women and girls to start and stay in sport.
• 31:58
  And it's no different in wheelchair tennis.
• 32:00
  And so the LTA are launching this big programme to get more
• 32:03
  and more girls and women playing wheelchair tennis and it's being
• 32:06
  launched at Bolton and she's getting, she's getting a, she's
• 32:09
  getting a weekend in Bolton. She's getting to see like high
• 32:12
  level international competition there.
• 32:14
  She's she's getting to be on court.
• 32:16
  I'm I'm actually quite jealous of her if I'm honest.
• 32:19
  But again, it's about that inclusive to see here, isn't it
• 32:21
  as well. But despite your Estonia, sorry,
• 32:26
  make sure I pronounce that correctly, that you're still
• 32:29
  able to live a very productive life.
• 32:33
  Yeah, if hopefully I've said that in a way that comes.
• 32:36
  Across, yeah, it is productive, but it's also quite comical.
• 32:39
  I mean, anybody who's listening, who's a teacher knows if you've
• 32:41
  ever been in a room with a 5 year old comedy, comedy happens.
• 32:47
  Like I swear I teach this one six year old tennis and she
• 32:51
  should be on the stage because if she if she misses a ball,
• 32:54
  it's like the most dramatic thing that's ever happened.
• 32:56
  And I come home and I will tell my other half, Matthew about the
• 33:02
  comedy things that were happened.
• 33:03
  But the best part was, you know, this 6-7 trend that all the all
• 33:08
  the things are well, they're a certain age, aren't they?
• 33:12
  They just started secondary school and I literally there's
• 33:16
  this one K and he's one of my favorite to teach, but you have
• 33:20
  to go in quite harsh and but now we're completely respect each
• 33:25
  other because I told him that I was a presenter, a sports
• 33:27
  presenter, and he was he was like, shut up.
• 33:29
  No, you're not. And I just said Google me.
• 33:31
  And he came back the next week and went I'll miss like we're
• 33:34
  all good, like you're cool. I love you.
• 33:36
  That's brilliant. So I had the best retort.
• 33:39
  But you know, I love working with kids.
• 33:41
  I think, I think as much as I love my broadcasting and my
• 33:46
  competing in sport, there's just something so great.
• 33:49
  I've always loved. I was a teacher before I was a
• 33:51
  wheelchair user and I just love working with kids in any
• 33:55
  capacity. They're absolutely brilliant.
• 33:57
  They give you the best one liners.
• 33:58
  There's a reason why I like Greg Davis and Ramesh Ranganathan are
• 34:01
  now stand up comedians because they've got all their material
• 34:04
  from teaching. Do you know what I mean?
• 34:06
  But also they're they're honest as well.
• 34:08
  Like I do get asked questions, you know, and I think it's great
• 34:12
  actually, because the younger kids are special or comers and
• 34:14
  go, why are you in a wheelchair? And often if, if you hear that
• 34:18
  in the street, parents will say, don't ask, don't ask.
• 34:20
  I don't mind them asking it. You have to kind of temper it to
• 34:23
  the age of kids. So if they're on the younger
• 34:26
  side, I just say, oh, if I stand up, my legs turn to strawberry
• 34:29
  Jelly and I it's basically like if you've had it out the fridge
• 34:33
  for a long time, I'll just melt and and then they'll go.
• 34:37
  That's really weird. So I bet they go home to their
• 34:39
  parents saying Gemma's legs are made of strawberry Jelly.
• 34:42
  But it's about tempering it to, to kind of the age group.
• 34:45
  But for me, even after my car accident, I became disabled.
• 34:50
  Like some form of teaching was always going to be in in my DNA
• 34:55
  because I just, I just love it. I just, I just love working with
• 35:00
  young people. So tennis over cheerleading.
• 35:06
  That's a hard one. That's a hard one because I will
• 35:10
  say that taking part in wheelchair tennis and playing
• 35:13
  it, I mean, wheelchair tennis is 50 years old now and I think, I
• 35:16
  think it's celebrating it's 50th birthday.
• 35:18
  And when it they were doing all the stuff in Australia, I think
• 35:21
  I put a post up that's saying it's given me a career.
• 35:23
  Like would I have my broadcasting career if I hadn't
• 35:26
  played wheelchair tennis? I don't think I would.
• 35:29
  And it's given me a platform to speak up for disabled people.
• 35:33
  So, for instance, I go to a lot of conferences and speak there
• 35:36
  and talk about disabled people. But cheerleading is a bit of a
• 35:40
  throwback to my dance days. Like I originally trained in
• 35:43
  musical theatre. Yeah.
• 35:45
  When I went to do my MA in journalism, that was funny when
• 35:47
  everybody else was like, I've got a degree in English and da,
• 35:49
  da, da. And I was like, I've got a
• 35:51
  degree in musical theatre. That was quite funny.
• 35:54
  But I'm and I, you know, I had to give up that career.
• 35:59
  I had to give up that career when I became a wheelchair user
• 36:01
  because it just wasn't provision for wheelchair users backstage.
• 36:03
  It's got a little bit better now.
• 36:05
  You know, we saw the show the Little big things in the West
• 36:07
  End a few years ago, which I went to see and you know, it was
• 36:10
  a wheelchair user as a lead. That's, that's game changing,
• 36:13
  but there's still not 100% that. So as well as being a sport,
• 36:17
  cheerleading gives me the chance to perform as well and kind of,
• 36:20
  and also we wear epic bows like that, that it gives me a chance.
• 36:26
  To put. A slap on like, like put the bow
• 36:29
  in my hair. I mean, I think, yeah, my physio
• 36:31
  talked about because I have a brain injury, she'd rather I
• 36:34
  wore like a protective helmet on my head because obviously once
• 36:37
  you've had a brain injury, you really don't want.
• 36:38
  And I was like, no. And she was like, why?
• 36:40
  And I was like, because I don't get to wear the bow.
• 36:42
  Like, you know it. Cheerleading has a bit of it's
• 36:46
  sport, but it also has a bit of a throwback to my performer
• 36:49
  days. So tennis over cheerleading
• 36:51
  right now. No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 36:53
  I think they're both equal. I think they're both equal.
• 36:55
  I think, I think they are both equal because they're all, they
• 36:58
  all give me something quite different.
• 37:01
  Yeah. OK, brilliant stuff, right?
• 37:04
  Gemma is also a journalist, sports journalist if you've not
• 37:07
  established that this evening, and she also covers the Posh
• 37:11
  Women's side who are absolutely flying at the top of their
• 37:15
  National League Division One Midlands currently.
• 37:17
  So we're just going to take a short break and we're just going
• 37:19
  to touch on the Posh Women for the last few minutes of this
• 37:22
  show. You're listening to PCR sports.
• 37:37
  Good evening, welcome back and we're flying through another
• 37:40
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• 37:44
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• 37:51
  button. So please do that if you've
• 37:54
  missed any part of the show this evening so far, we've got with
• 37:58
  us Gemma Stevenson. She is, and this is her words,
• 38:01
  not mine, ICU world champion, athlete, journalist, presenter
• 38:05
  and also at Young Ambassador for the Dystonia UK.
• 38:08
  And we've been discussing broadly but mainly about the
• 38:13
  inclusion of disabled people in the sport of cheerleading and
• 38:17
  she's brought in with her this evening.
• 38:19
  Her 2019 World's Medal is that. Yes, it is.
• 38:23
  Yeah. And that's taking place again
• 38:25
  this year in Florida. In Florida, in Disneyland and.
• 38:30
  You love a little bit Disneyland.
• 38:33
  When's that taking place? Then so it takes place at the
• 38:37
  end of April. OK, sure.
• 38:38
  So we have to go out sort of the middle of April.
• 38:40
  OK. I think that's the important
• 38:42
  thing. It's all self funded as well.
• 38:44
  So it's not, we're not supported by Sport England as athletes or
• 38:47
  as or even as as cheer for everyone as a charity.
• 38:52
  So I would say if there are any businesses out there listening
• 38:55
  or any people who would potentially like to sponsor,
• 38:58
  even if it's just like £5, if they go to paracheer.org and
• 39:03
  click on donate, you can either set up a regular donation or you
• 39:06
  can do a one off. Basically, because the
• 39:09
  championships take part on Disney property, even though
• 39:13
  we're only showcasing and there's no prize money, we have
• 39:16
  to pay an entrance fee which for all the athletes taking part is
• 39:20
  6000 lbs. So that's Parrot's aim, to try
• 39:23
  and get that £6000 to cover our entry fee to the World
• 39:28
  Championships. Brilliant.
• 39:29
  Different chairman. I didn't talk about power cheer.
• 39:31
  I know we're going to there. She wants to move on to Peter
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  United Women in a minute, but what are the rules of para cheer
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  and cheerleading General that what how does a competition
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  work? And and also if if there's any
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  listeners out there who are interested in para cheer, how do
• 39:42
  they get involved? So, yeah, so basically in para
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  cheer, anything goes at the minute because we're learning
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  about the adaptations that are needed to have kind of
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  Paralympic eligible athletes and only Paralympic eligible
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  athletes on on the floor really on the mat.
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  So anything goes right now as long as it's not an illegal
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  stunt in. Standard cheerleading, so you
• 40:02
  have illegal stunts in standard cheerleading, you've also must
• 40:05
  always have the back spot in a certain position.
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  They're mostly to do with safety.
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  So nobody dies, you know, because we wouldn't want that.
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  But if you do want to get involved in para cheer in
• 40:14
  particular, well, if you want to get involved in cheerleading,
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  whether that there are so there are All Star teams in
• 40:19
  Peterborough who you can go and and and kind of ring up.
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  But para cheer in particular. I do know that after we've done
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  this showcase at World Cheer for everyone are organising some
• 40:31
  development days where people can come and have a go at it
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  across the country. So they may do one in Newmarket,
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  I don't know yet, but one of our training venues is in Newmarket,
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  so watch out for those. And yeah, I mean within a lot of
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  All Star programs now they have adaptive abilities teams as
• 40:49
  well. So you, I, you may find that you
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  find a local 1 where you can go and do adaptive abilities cheer
• 40:54
  to start yourself off. But really just go down to a
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  cheer gym and ask the sport of cheerleading over the last for
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  years because of the work that Rick has been doing has become
• 41:04
  so much more open to disabled people and neurodivergent people
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  that I you'd find a home somewhere.
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  Yeah, and para cheer.org is the website.
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  Yes, Para cheer they've. Got a Facebook page as well.
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  Yes they have. So the Facebook page I think is
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  renamed cheer for everyone and they also have an Instagram if
• 41:21
  you're on the gram as well. Brilliant stuff, right?
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  Let's we've got just a couple of minutes, but Peterbury United
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  Women absolutely flying at the top of Division One Midlands and
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  you speak to them quite regularly, but when you cover
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  them. Yeah, generally most most weeks,
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  I think the one thing they've done which makes and I'm a
• 41:40
  frustrated Newcastle United fan in in the men's game, I'm a very
• 41:43
  frustrated Newcastle United fan. And I now sit there and go, why
• 41:46
  can't Newcastle United do what Porsche women did?
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  And I think what the difference has been this season.
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  I mean, they, they just, they missed out last season and it
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  was because of a, I'll say a dodgy November where results
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  where they should have won, They didn't.
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  And what's been so impressive about this season is Jake Paul,
• 42:03
  who's the manager went away, said what do we need?
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  What do we need to add to this squad to make it so that we can
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  get promoted to Tier 3? Because they are a good side,
• 42:14
  they are a good side and they had a good team before.
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  But what, what, what holes are missing?
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  And he filled them perfectly. But there is one woman I want to
• 42:22
  big up in this Posh side, right? She's called Neve Corrie, she's
• 42:25
  the keeper, right? Posh women currently have a goal
• 42:27
  difference of 46. 9 clean sheets this season.
• 42:30
  Yes, 9 like. 14 games. Yeah, she is incredible between
• 42:37
  the sticks like and she even in a in a Derby, in Derby day, she
• 42:41
  kind of held a call and she just did not let a ball past her like
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  she is. She is one of the star players
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  of that team. Derby day was Wednesday.
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  Yeah Posh beat Northampton. Any win over in Northampton side
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  is a good one so well done. To but they've got double
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  bragging rights now because they've won both Derby head to
• 42:58
  heads this season let's. See what the men can do because
• 43:00
  the Posh men's side are at Northampton a week on Saturdays
• 43:05
  in a 12/30 kick. But no Posh women are flying
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  unbeaten in 1413 wins, one draw, 54 goals, 9 clean sheets, one
• 43:13
  point clear at the top. Boldemir St.
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  Michael are in second. They've got eight games to go,
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  but they do have two games in hand over Boldemir, as you say,
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  beat Northampton three nil, but they had do have this showcase
• 43:25
  game coming up at London Road, the the men's stadium on the.
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  Yes, on the 8th of March they'll be playing Worcester City.
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  They have played at London Road before, but it was a long time
• 43:35
  ago, not a long time ago, but quite a fair bit ago.
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  So this is a this is a chance for this posh team to showcase
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  what they can do, what I want. I'm not asking much Posh women.
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  I want a Kira Ray hat trick within 5 minutes because she did
• 43:48
  one of the one of the matches at the start of the season.
• 43:52
  Kira Ray comes on, she makes the debut hat trick in 5 minutes.
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  It was incredible. And I want a Renee Bennett spot
• 44:00
  kick. People who listen to me
• 44:01
  broadcasting on the radio know that I always say I have so much
• 44:04
  love for Renee Bennett. If I needed somebody to take a
• 44:06
  spot kick and my life depended on it, it would be her like.
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  And if any posh women's fans are watching, they'll go.
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  You always say that, but no ever.
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  Dependable. Yeah, she's, she's so
• 44:16
  dependable. And I just want a clean sheet
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  from Neeve Corrie as well. Do you know, I'm not asking, not
• 44:20
  asking for much, not much. But there's, you know, there's
• 44:22
  some pretty big matches. I mean, we could end up knowing
• 44:25
  by the end of March whether they're automatically promoted
• 44:28
  or not. But there's a couple of big
• 44:29
  tasty head to heads. They're all away.
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  So you can't go and watch them, you know, pimps park or at
• 44:34
  London Road. But do the travel if you if you
• 44:36
  can, because they've. Got Boldemir St.
• 44:38
  Michael away. Yeah, they've got Boldemir St.
• 44:40
  Michael away on the 22nd of March and this weekend they've
• 44:43
  got Lee Fields Athletic. Now, they ran out two NIL
• 44:46
  winners the last time they played Lee Field, so that was
• 44:49
  that was one of Neve's clean sheets, so let's see if it can
• 44:52
  happen again this weekend. Cool, so posh women.
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  They're going to be playing at London Road against Worcester
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  City on the 8th of March. Sunday the 8th of March at
• 45:03
  London Road and tickets are available from theposh.com
• 45:06
  website. Gemma, hours flown past.
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  Thank you very much for your time this evening talking all
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  about para cheer and the inclusion of disabled people,
• 45:16
  not just in cheerleading but in sport generally as well.
• 45:19
  And I think it's important that we do discuss those subjects and
• 45:23
  topics openly and make sure sport is accessible for all and
• 45:27
  not just for the minority. Wonderful Gemma, thank you have
• 45:31
  a good weekend. Thank you.
• 45:33
  Pleasure as always. Just a final note, just been
• 45:36
  looking at social media and Fairy Meadows Park run is
• 45:38
  actually cancelled tomorrow as well.
• 45:39
  Fairy Meadows is still flooded. So that's two weeks on the trot.
• 45:42
  So if you are looking to a park run, look for an alternative one
• 45:45
  away from Fairy Meadows tomorrow.
• 45:47
  But thank you once again for your time this evening and next
• 45:51
  Friday's show. We're going to be talking to
• 45:52
  Alex Green, England Under 19 cricketer who was recently at
• 45:57
  the Under 19 World Cup playing for England and played in the
• 46:01
  final as well that reach. So we look forward to catching
• 46:04
  up with him next week. But enjoy your sporting weekend,
• 46:07
  whatever you're up to. We do hope it's a successful,
• 46:09
  enjoyable and have a great weekend.
• 46:12
  Take care.