Elyse Wanshel is a reporter for HuffPost, based in New York. She previously worked as a humor/nightlife columnist for the Miami New Times and misses Cuban coffee and croquetas dearly.
One video from last year uses audio from the electronic toy Bop It! during a montage of blind swimmers getting2023 shows Australian cyclist Darren Hicks, who had his right leg amputated after a crash, winning a time trial gold medal at Tokyo 2020. The audio used for this video is a popular TikTok song that’s been modified so the only audible word is “left.”
The International Paralympic Committee’s digital media coordinator, Richard Fox — a former Paralympian who has been involved in“I wanted to showcase people with disabilities doing sport, but in a different way to how it’s been done previously,” he explained. “And so by using the viral sounds and by using the trends, that’s how we’re doing that.”
The spokesperson also added that there’s plenty of Paralympians who like the content — and think that it could help raise awareness and normalize their differences. André Ramos, a bronze medalist in boccia, told Adweek that “making fun with our handicaps is a sign that we accept ourselves as we are and that others do not see the disability as a difference.”
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