Lauritta Onye the Nigerian Paralympic who shocked the world with her exceptional performance at the Rio Olympics has told the BBC in an interview that there’s nothing like determination. Onye won Nigeria’s first athletics gold of the games, and then with her barnstorming celebrations afterwards.
There’s a great series of photos from her performance in the women’s shot put F40 (for athletes with short stature).
First, she throws 8.40m, to break the world record:
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…After the competition’s over, Onye really lets loose… Reuters
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…sharing her joy with fellow medallists, Tunisia’s Rima Abdelli, who took sliver…
…And Lara Baars of The Netherlands, who took bronze.
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She’s been telling the BBC’s Ade Adedoyin what lessons she thinks others could take from her victory:
“Nothing should demoralise you from moving on… there’s nothing like having determination, have confidence that you can do it.”
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