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Today, Explained

Equal-opportunity murderball

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

For the first time, a woman is playing on the US wheelchair rugby team at the Paralympics. It’s a sign of progress in the complicated arena of co-ed sports. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah with original reporting by Audrey Nelson, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Photo by Marco Mantovani/Getty Images. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Paralympics kicked off Wednesday in Paris and the Murderball began Thursday.

0:05.0

You might know Murderball by its government name, Wheelchair Rugby,

0:09.0

but the people who first played it called it Murderball because it's fast it's fierce and it

0:14.7

certainly looks like they're trying to kill each other it's bumper cars but

0:19.9

everyone's paralyzed and also playing football.

0:22.0

In England here are in trouble and Alan,

0:25.0

look at the pace!

0:26.0

Like most of the best sports,

0:27.0

Murderball was invented by a Canadian,

0:29.0

but the Paralympics are bringing a historic moment to Team USA.

0:33.6

For the first time ever, there's a woman

0:36.2

on the Murderball Squad.

0:37.4

And Sarah Adam, an historic moment on the board.

0:40.6

She scores the first Paralympic goal for a female wheelchair rugby player in

0:46.0

team USA history. We're going to find out why it was so hard to get here and dig

0:50.6

into the complexities of co-ed sports on today explain. We'll see be quickly, Ojory Eke.

1:11.0

Audrey Nelson is a freelance journalist who is obsessed with Murderball, so he asked her to tell you about the sport.

1:13.0

First of all you'd see athletes and manual wheelchairs

1:17.0

rolling their wheelchairs with their hands passing and dribbling a volleyball.

1:21.0

The objective basically is the inbound the ball on a

1:23.2

we play on a regulation basketball court. You go from one end to the other end.

1:27.6

Not the ball, not the ball,

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