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The Conversation: Wheelchair rugby

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Sofie Skoubo and Kylie Grimes

01/05/2023 GMT

Wheelchair rugby

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Kylie Grimes and Sofie Skoubo discuss playing fast-paced, high-impact wheelchair rugby

Paralympic wheelchair rugby players Kylie Grimes and Sofie Skoubo tell Kim Chakanetsa about competing at the top level in this mixed-gender, adrenaline-filled, high-impact sport.

Kim Chakanetsa talks to two Paralympic wheelchair rugby players from UK and Denmark about competing at the top level in this mixed-gender, adrenaline-filled, high-impact sport – that used to be known as murderball.

Kylie Grimes is an Paralympic gold medallist, competing at three Paralympics for Great Britain. As a teenage athlete and show jumper, Kylie had a life-changing spinal injury in 2006 but her passion for sport remained. Within three years she was cycling 450 km, from Vietnam to Cambodia, to raise money for charity and was playing wheelchair rugby. In 2012 she qualified for her first Paralympics in London she helped Team GB win its first Paralympic gold in the sport at Tokyo 2020.

Sofie Skoubo helped the Danish wheelchair rugby team qualify for their first Paralympics in Tokyo. She has Muscular Dystrophy and has also fought off the court to focus on the special needs of para-athletes. Alongside her sports career she works for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation on an initiative supporting disabled children access education.

Produced by Jane Thurlow

(Image: (L) Sofie Skoubo, credit D Echelard. (R) Kylie Grimes, credit Megum Masuda.)

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