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Wild Ideas Worth Living

Para Cycling with Meg Fisher

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Meg Fisher is one of the greatest para cyclists in the world. Twenty years ago, Meg was in a car accident that changed her life. She discovered cycling thanks to an energetic service dog, and quickly began competing, gaining sponsors and winning competitions all over the world.

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0:00.0

Behind me is a picture of Betsy, the wonder dog.

0:05.9

She had the skill set to pull my wheelchair and pick the things up that I dropped or turn

0:09.4

on lights and just be a great companion.

0:12.9

And I saw people mountain biking with their dogs and I thought, well, maybe if I can

0:17.6

relearn the ability to stand and walk and maybe I can bike and I did learn to stand

0:23.4

and I did learn to walk and I did get on a bike and Betsy was the whole motivation

0:27.2

behind that.

0:30.7

Meg Fisher is one of the greatest parapsychless in the world and she attributes her passion

0:35.7

for cycling to her first service dog, Betsy.

0:39.7

20 years ago, Meg was in a car accident that changed the course of her life.

0:44.7

She went from being a division 1 tennis player to losing her mobility with the amputation

0:49.8

of her lower left leg.

0:51.5

It's been a long road to recovery.

0:54.2

But now, Meg is broken countless records, won every color medal you could dream of and

0:59.6

she's an 11 time world champion.

1:03.8

I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living, an R.I. co-op studios production.

1:15.1

Meg started competing as a cyclist in 2005 when she did a 24 hour mountain bike race for

1:20.8

the first time.

1:22.2

A few years later, she competed in her first road race.

1:26.6

To say that she's good is putting it simply, Meg has won title after title.

1:32.6

She's done training camps all over the U.S. as well as in London and in Rio.

1:37.4

As Meg travels to camps and competitions, there are two pieces of gear she has to have.

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