Three Wishes for 2023: World's strongest man Tom Stoltman
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, two-time world's strongest man Tom Stoltman shares his experience dealing with grief, how the gym helped in dealing with autism, and his hope for more acceptance and support for people with disabilities in the UK.
Producers: David Chipakupaku and Alys Bowen
Junior Producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Paul Stanworth and Philly Beaumont
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| 0:00.0 | If I could give you three wishes, what would they be? Everlasting life, perhaps, never-ending happiness, |
| 0:11.1 | or maybe just enough money to forget the cost of living. I ask you this because, for the next few |
| 0:16.3 | episodes, well, we're doing things a little differently here on the daily. To start 2023, we've gathered a few names you might recognise from across sport, politics and entertainment |
| 0:26.5 | who each have different dreams for their future. |
| 0:30.0 | I want to find out how they'd use their three wishes to change the world, their country and their own lives. |
| 0:36.1 | And most crucially, why? I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News Daily. |
| 0:46.3 | Accepting someone for how they look or what they have autism is a very, very important thing. |
| 0:53.0 | And like I said, it's a massive problem in the UK right now. |
| 0:56.2 | And I think we need to, you know, have some better education on this and really have some more |
| 1:00.2 | support in this and really help, you know, everyone come together in the UK. |
| 1:04.5 | If you were scrolling through your telechannels last week, trying to find something to take |
| 1:08.9 | your mind off the state of your post-Christmas |
| 1:11.2 | kitchen or perhaps your awful in-laws. You may just have popped up on that old Christmas |
| 1:15.5 | tradition. No, not the King's speech, but the world's strongest man competition. And there, |
| 1:21.5 | you will have seen Tom Stalkman take the title for the second year in a row. Originally from |
| 1:26.9 | Invergordon in Northern Scotland, |
| 1:28.9 | Tom's been competing in strong men competitions since he was 18. Now 28, he and his brother Luke |
| 1:35.7 | are well known in competition circles and are so far the only brothers to both qualify for the |
| 1:40.8 | finals of World's Strongest Man. Now with his strong exterior, you'd be forgiven |
| 1:45.2 | for making assumptions about Tom and how he sees the world, but this mightiest of men also |
| 1:50.8 | uses his platform to raise awareness of a condition he lives with. Tom was diagnosed with autism |
| 1:56.3 | when he was five, and regularly talks about life on the spectrum. We touch on that and what life is like when |
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