The Track Star
Whose Amazing Life?
Wondery
4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As a little kid, you were so sick, your doctors thought you'd never be able to walk. You've proved them wrong once, and you're ready to do it again. You won't stop moving your legs until they take you all the way to the Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to Who's Amazing Life Early and Ad Free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry App or Wundry Kids Plus on Apple Podcasts. from Wonder, I'm Knee, I'm Crete Summer and this is Who's Amazing Life? |
| 0:24.0 | You've heard of people who changed the course of history, |
| 0:27.0 | but before they made their mark on the world, |
| 0:30.0 | they were people like you and me, |
| 0:32.0 | still figuring out what they wanted to do with their lives. |
| 0:35.0 | On this episode, you will be that person that everyone knows. |
| 0:40.0 | You might be a musician, an athlete a scientist or a painter |
| 0:47.0 | You may know what the person accomplished later in life |
| 0:50.3 | But now you can experience everything they faced along the way, from challenges and heartbreak |
| 0:56.5 | to triumphs and excitement, all the moments that built this person into someone who would change the world. |
| 1:04.0 | There will be clues, so pay attention. |
| 1:07.0 | But only at the end will you find out who you are. |
| 1:12.2 | So sit back and imagine your amazing life as the Track Star. Imagine you're seven years old. You're walking with your mom on your way to your first day of second grade. |
| 1:31.0 | As you enter the busy school building your mom |
| 1:35.0 | gently squeezes your hand. Are you ready? Your heart flutters in your chest. Not only |
| 1:41.7 | is today your first day of second grade it's also your first day of school ever. You were |
| 1:49.9 | sick a lot when you were younger. You had to spend a lot of time in bed recovering and you |
| 1:55.8 | missed out on lots of other things kids your age got to do. Like playing tag, climbing |
| 2:01.7 | in the playground and attending school. |
| 2:05.0 | But now you're finally well enough to go to school and you can't wait. |
| 2:10.0 | You take a deep breath and smile at your mom. |
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