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Nike On Air: The Fastest Woman in the World with Tatyana McFadden

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Acast Creative Studios

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3920 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Tatyana McFadden has 20 Paralympic medals in wheelchair racing. She’s won four New York City Marathons. When she’s racing downhill, her arms push her to speeds of 40 miles an hour. This episode, tune in to learn how Tatyana went from an orphanage in Russia to one of the most decorated athletes in the world.

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0:35.0

My racing chair is all carbon fiber. It's black. It has three wheels.

0:41.0

I sit on my legs and I'm bending over. My gears are my arms. So how fast I want to go that day is how

0:50.1

fast I'm pushing it. And in the race, when I get down to the last mile,

0:56.0

I am so nervous.

0:57.0

Like my heart is hounding outside my chest.

0:59.0

I feel like I can hear it coming into the last stretch when you have the crowd cheering for you, you know,

1:06.4

you also get chills too because everyone's so excited for you to come through.

1:11.1

And then they're cheering your name

1:15.1

and you're giving everything that you have left.

1:18.8

I think it's pretty thrilling and it kind of does remind me

1:22.4

of NASCAR racing a little bit.

1:28.1

Hello everyone I'm Tatiana McFadden 20 time Paralympic Medalist, 8 Gold, and a 24 major marathon winner of Boston, London,

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