Daniel Dias is a 20 year old guy who had his first obstacle when ee was Born. He is a disabled boy who saw at swimming an opportunity to show that his disability wouldn’t prevent him from reaching a dream.
When he was born, life wasn’t that simple for him. His mother says that Daniel used to suffer prejudice because he was different from the other kids and she didn’t know what to do to help him adapt at school and to help him making friends. But on the other hand, it was his father who came with the idea of enrolling him at swimming classes to make him interact with more children.
“After two or three classes I was in love with the sport and knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life” he says. And than he started to practice more and more. His teacher encouraged him a lot because he knew that Daniel would have future in the sport.
At his first big championship, the paraolympic games in Brazil he couldn’t do better. He was the big winner of parapanamerican games with 8 golden medals and two world records. So it just encouraged him to work hard to the biggest challenge of his life: The Ollimpic games in Beijing. He won spectacular number of 9 medals. He was the one who brought more medals to Brazil.
So, after winning such a huge number of medals and break 4 world records, Daniel Dias came back to Brazil from Beijing more excited than ever to continue his journey of victories. Beside bringing more visibility of disabled people, encourage other disabled people to know that they are capable to reach their dream.
Ricardo
FCE2
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