Episode 50: Tatyana McFadden

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy and Lynn Olszowy

Sports

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Wheelchair racing superstar Tatyana McFadden joins Laughter Permitted to share her remarkable journey from a Russian orphanage to Paralympic stardom. Born in Russia with spina bifida and paralyzed from the waist down, Tatyana spent the first six years of her life in an orphanage before being adopted and brought to the United States. She would go on to excel in wheelchair racing and win 16 Summer Paralympic medals and 24 major marathon titles, but Tatyana says a silver medal in cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in her home country of Russia is one her career "highs." Plus find out how many pull-ups Tatyana can do in a row and what her favorite city in the world is.

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0:00.0	The laughter permitted podcast is brought to you by Ally. Do it right.
0:04.0	It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere we go.
0:13.0	Oh yes it is.
0:15.0	Hello to our dope village and welcome to laughter permitted. I'm Julie Fowdy alongside Linne O'Zowie.
0:20.0	Hi Linne.
0:22.0	Hi Jules.
0:23.0	Happy December.
0:26.0	Happy December, do you know what that means?
0:28.0	That means it's the last month of 2020 baby.
0:32.0	Yes, but bye.
0:34.0	Bye bye 2020.
0:35.0	Bye bye.
0:36.0	We did it. Almost.
0:38.0	Almost.
0:39.0	I don't know about you, but I have this feeling of wanting to finish off the year strong.
0:44.0	I'm there with you.
0:46.0	We're gonna finish it strong. I believe.
0:48.0	We've got this.
0:50.0	We've got this dope village.
0:52.0	In this together until the end.
0:54.0	Another reason to be excited for December you ask?
0:58.0	Well, our guest is wheelchair racing superstar Tatiana McFadden.
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