The cyclist In 1976, at the age of fifteen, Christian Haettich had a serious car ____. He ____ his left arm and his left leg. For the next few years, he found it very difficult to live with his ____. But in 1984 he saw a man with one leg cycle up a ____ hill. ‘I can do that,’ he thought, and he learnt to cycle. It was really difficult – he fell ____ his bike many times – but he kept ____. In 1985, he began to compete ____ races for ____ cyclists. His ambition was to compete in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and he trained ____ to be in the French team. But then the rules for the ____ changed and Christian could not take ____ because his disability did not match the new rules. So Christian found a new ____: cycling up mountains. Now he competes in mountain races and cycles around 27,000 kilometres every ____! The racing driver British driver Mike Newman enjoys breaking ____ records. For ____, in 2013 he broke two – the land speed and the water speed records. This ____ is more amazing because Mike cannot see. He was born with a serious ____ disease and became completely ____ at the age of eight. For many years, Mike did not think it was possible to ____ part in motor sports. But at the age of forty, he started ____ motorbikes and then he tried cars. “I love the engines, the smells, the noises which come with it,” he says. He set new land speed records in 2003 and 2005, but in 2010 Metin Senturk, a blind Turkish pop star, went faster. So in 2013, Mike had to ____ a new record. It is very difficult – and ____. Imagine driving a car at 300 kilometres per hour with your eyes ____! When he isn’t ____ ____, Mike runs a charity called Speed of Sight. The ____ helps other blind people to take part in motor sports. The skier Alana Nichols was a very ____ child. She loved volleyball and basketball. As a teenager, Alana’s ____ was to study sports at university. But then, at the age of seventeen, she ____ her back in a serious snowboarding ____. She couldn’t walk. For two years, she did not know what to ____ with her life. But at the age of nineteen, she discovered a new sport: ____ basketball. She became part of the national ____ for the USA and in 2008 they won a ____ medal at the Paralympics in Beijing. Alana ____ that other sports were possible for her too. She tried surfing and kayaking. Then she tried skiing. She ____ hard and became part of the American Paralympic team. At the 2010 winter Paralympics, she became the only ____ to win gold ____ at the summer and winter Paralympic Games when she won ____ medals for skiing: two gold, a silver and a bronze. Then, in 2014, she won another silver medal at the ____ games.

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