Chasing the light with four wins with one arm, she wants to participate in the Olympics!

Mondo Sports Updated on 2024-02-23

The team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan is in full swing.

The Chinese team "routinely operated".

has advanced to the semi-finals on both fronts.

While enjoying the exciting game.

Audience, netizens at home and abroad.

Attention was also paid to the one-armed athletes of the Brazilian women's team.

Bruna Alexander.

She lost her right arm as a baby.

Become a special existence in this World Table Tennis Championships.

In the eighths final of the women's team held on the 21st.

The Brazilian women's team lost 1:3 to the South Korean team.

ended the World Table Tennis Championships journey with four wins and two losses.

As the third singles in the team.

Alexander has made six appearances in this tournament.

Win four of them.

In the game, she was the best in attack and tough in defense.

Advance to the round of 16 for the team.

It has played the role of "Dinghaishen Needle".

It was called the "strongest three singles" by many ** people on the scene

Especially against Luxembourg in the group stage.

Brazil lost two sets first.

A set was won by Alexander.

Blow the horn of a counterattack.

In the end, Brazil won 3:2.

After the game, two teammates spoke bluntly.

Thank you Bruna for giving us a glimmer of hope".

Before he was 1 year old, Alexander lost his right arm due to illness.

At the age of 7, she was introduced to table tennis for the first time.

She said. I like table tennis.

Because it's a movement about wisdom.

You can't just go for it.

Instead, it is necessary to adopt different techniques and tactics to achieve the goal.

She enjoyed the process.

At the age of 15, she began to travel to competitions all over the world.

And with great results.

Alexander's Social**.

Full of medals for all kinds of events.

Of these medals, Alexander cherished the most.

She wrote it into her social ** profile.

It is a medal of the Rio Paralympic Games and the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

Events at the highest level of Paralympic athletes.

She won one silver medal and two bronze medals.

That was her glory and dream as a Paralympian.

Now, she has bigger dreams.

Participation in the Paris Olympics.

Before participating in the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan.

The Brazilian women's team has already won the championship through continental competitions.

Qualified for the Paris Olympics.

However, the line-up has not yet been decided.

28-year-old Alexander said.

For the Paris Olympics, she will always be ready.

If there is an opportunity to participate.

She will be like this World Table Tennis Championships.

Do your best. She aspires to make her mark at the Olympics.

And in doing so, inspire all people with disabilities.

Anything is possible, I will prove it".

Alexander said.

I regard table tennis as my life.

Enjoy every moment in the arena.

Table tennis allows her to compete on an equal footing with the girls.

Through table tennis, she recognized:

Myself is no different from everyone else.

She can do anything.

Alexander's left arm has a line of text.

If life is made up of individual choices.

Well, the choice becomes powerful.

Reporter: Tan Chang, Su Bin, Feng Yasong.

*: Zhang Tao, Tan Chang, Alexander Social**.

Editors: Gao Meng, Tian Guangyu.

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