Life after a terror attack: How sport can help
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday 22 March 2017, police officer Kris Aves sustained life changing injuries in the Westminster Bridge terror attack.
Today, he tells us how, despite no longer being able to walk, he's found renewed hope in his life through golf, using a special contraption called a Paragolfer.
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Guests:
- Kris Aves, Metropolitan police officer.
- Cae Menai-Davis, Director and Founder of The Golf Trust.
Host: David Walsh, Chief sports writer at The Sunday Times.
Clips: TalkSPORT, ITV and Al Jazeera.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, David Ronevich here. Today's episode of Stories of Our Times is about life after a terror attack |
| 0:07.4 | and how one survivor found a renewed meaning and purpose through sport. |
| 0:13.0 | We had to hand over now to my colleague, the Chief Sportswriter at the Sunday Times, David Walsh. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm on a golf course in North London. It's a warm summer's day. |
| 0:41.6 | It feels good. Golf is a sport I love and during the pandemic there were periods when we couldn't |
| 0:48.3 | play. As a sports journalist I've been lucky enough to play at some of the very best golf courses |
| 0:54.4 | around the world. But today I'm playing with someone no golf fan will have ever heard of. |
| 1:08.3 | You're listening to Stories of Our Times from the Times and the Sunday Times. I'm David Walsh. |
| 1:19.4 | Today, life after a terror attack how sport can help. |
| 1:29.4 | I've been working as a sports journalist at the Sunday Times since 1996. |
| 1:34.5 | I've traveled the world watching the very best of the best from football world cups to rugby world cups |
| 1:41.6 | from the Tour de France to the Olympic Games. Pretty much every sport you can imagine. It's a job |
| 1:49.5 | many envy. But throughout my career one of the things people who aren't sports fans often ask me |
| 1:57.8 | why does sport matter? Why do grown men and women get so emotional over what is after all |
| 2:04.8 | just a game? Sometimes I found it hard to answer that question. To justify the huge sums of money |
| 2:13.2 | certain sports stars earn to try to explain how some have only gained glory through cheating |
| 2:20.6 | and off to pitch to try and rationalize the terrible behavior of some sports fans. |
| 2:27.4 | For me, there is a reason why sport matters. And today's podcast I hope can give you a sense of why |
| 2:38.6 | that is. I'm at the Shah Golf Course in Barnard, North London. I've come to meet Chris Aves |
| 2:49.4 | for a round of golf. But before we go on the course, I'm sitting in the clubhouse |
| 3:00.1 | overlooking the beautiful manicured fairways with Chris. But we're not chatting about golf. |
| 3:06.4 | We're going over a day that altered the course of his life. So my name is Chris Aves. I'm 40 years |
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