![]() “One guy decided, ‘I want to make a difference,’” he said. The story of many Paralympians is very different to what could have been, according to Peacock. ‘I thought I couldn’t do that.’ No, change your mind.” “You hope the people can come away from this and be inspired and question themselves. You can watch the Paralympics and you can change your attitude,” says Peacock. “I just hope people break down those barriers. ![]() ![]() And then I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ The documentary makes you feel completely different emotions altogether,” Vio told CNN Sport.īoth Peacock and Vio want the documentary to inspire the next generation. “I just started laughing and then crying and then screaming. “Sh*t happens,” she says, speaking in the documentary. She first had both her arms amputated, then both her legs when the disease returned. I have to fence to win against my disease,” says Vio in the documentary. “A part of my body was trying to kill me. She hadn’t but rather contracted meningitis. Her mother asked whether she had been fencing without a mask. In 2012, she represented future Paralympians as a torchbearer in London and waited four more years before entering her first Paralympic Games in Rio where she won gold in the Women’s foil category B, a class which includes athletes that have an impairment that impacts either their torso or fencing arm.Īged 11, she had a headache one day after training and came home with a bruise on the top of her head. The Italian fell in love with fencing aged six and has never looked back since, winning medal after medal. She was given the nickname “Rising Phoenix” as a teen. It’s the most hard hitting, it’s the most transformative,” Peacock said.Īnother star of the documentary is Beatrice “Bebe” Vio, who inspired the documentary’s title. “The story of Jean-Baptiste Alaize is the best example because his is the most brutal. Over the years, Peacock admits he has started “forgetting” about Paralympians’ back stories but the documentary brought that back. He says he chose long jump as a way to “run away from something.” It’s a documentary that makes you want to cry, then laugh, then cry again.įrench long jump champion and sprinter Jean-Baptiste Alaize explains how he survived an attack in Burundi during the civil war in 1994, when he was just three.Īlaize remembers it as if it was yesterday. “He had such a vision, such a passion for it. “The vision for the film and just how Greg spoke about the Paralympics was just incredible,” Peacock told CNN Sport. He has since excelled in the 100 meters, in the T44 category, a class which includes athletes with a lower knee amputation. The Briton contracted meningitis when he was five and had to have his right leg amputated as a result. The team approached Paralympic athletes, including double gold medalist sprinter Jonnie Peacock. Greg Nugent, marketing director of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012, had the idea of making a documentary on Paralympians for eight years. Each featured athlete is on a very distinct journey to gold medal success with a story to tell and an unwavering appetite to win. Such a legend sits close to the heart of the Netflix documentary, “Rising Phoenix,” which follows the story of nine Paralympians. ![]() It lives, dies and rises from the ashes to live again.
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