His name is Stéphane Lorenzo, he isn't a famous people but he is the first French man handicaped, with only one leg, to cross La Manche swimming.
Stéphane achieved this exploit, on August 2010, sixteen hours with no stop to swim in a water in 16°C to do more than 60 kilometers, from Dover in England to Calais in France.
He does this because he wants to prove that he's able to do this like a valid person. He says that the fact to be born with this handicap, without thighbone in the left leg, does not make him handicaped literally. He wants to prove to his family and his friends that he's able to do the same things as them and more still. To realize this challenge, Stéphane trained and adapted to his handicap.
It was a dream for him to cross La Manche and he makes a success to realize it by thinking of his children and people who helped him before.
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I find that this man is brave and I think that the handicap of a person doesn't have to be an obstacle to the dreams of each.
Finally, I think that to have an handicap it's not easy but they are persons like the others and they have the same capacities and the same rights like the other persons.
wawoo!! very interesting, I think that this persone is very brave but I doesn't think about his familly, may be they was afraid about his life. he doesn't have to put himself in danger to prove them that he is able to do anything.
RépondreSupprimerI agree with you, he doesn't have to do this and to put himself in danger but it was a dream for him.
RépondreSupprimerAnd I think that cross La Manche it was a challenge to fight with his handicap!!