Welcome to the documentary podcast.

I'm Dan Pepper and from the BBC World Service

this is the next Paralympians.

I'm going to be meeting trail-plazing athletes with an intellectual impairment. Few

of them one in four countries send athletes with an intellectual impairment to the Paralympic Games. I want to find

out why. I'm going to be speaking to athletes, the people around them, as well as

people that are trying to improve representation for athletes like me

with an intellectual impairment. I want to find out what barriers people face

and what's being done to overcome them. I represent them. I represented Great Britain at the London 2012 Paralympics in an intellectual

impairment class. To qualify for an intellectual impairment class you and below, struggle with life skills such as handling money or getting around and it needs to have affected you from childhood.

And it also needs to affect your ability in your particular sport.

India is one of the countries that never sent an athlete with an intellectual impairment to the games until now.

I've come to India to meet their first ever parliament with with an intellectual impairment,

and to hear her story,

as well as to find out why it's taking so long.

My name is Deepi Geevanj.

The country name is India. My event is 400 meters.

Brilliant. Pleasure to meet you. How old are you now?

20 years old.

A meet in Deep Tea at the Sports Academy,

where she lives and trains in Hyderabad,

a big city in the south of India.

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