Kadir Thank you! Woman What’s your name? Kadir

part in motor sports. But at the age of forty, he started riding 
motorbikes and then he tried cars. “I love the engines, the 
smells, the noises which come with it,” he says. 
He set new land speed records in 2003 and 2005, but in 
2010 Metin Senturk, a blind Turkish pop star, went faster. 
So in 2013, Mike had to set a new record. It is very difficult –
and dangerous. Imagine driving a car at 300 kilometres per 
hour with your eyes closed!
When he isn’t breaking records, Mike runs a charity called 
Speed of Sight. The charity helps other blind people to take 
part in motor sports.
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3 The skier
Alana Nichols was a very sporty child. She loved volleyball 
and basketball. As a teenager, Alana’s ambition was to 
study sports at university. But then, at the age of seventeen,
she broke her back in a serious snowboarding accident. She
couldn’t walk. For two years, she did not know what to do 
with her life. 
But at the age of nineteen, she discovered a new sport: 
wheelchair basketball. She became part of the national team
for the USA and in 2008 they won a gold medal at the 
Paralympics in Beijing. 
Alana realised that other sports were possible for her too. 
She tried surfing and kayaking. Then she tried skiing. She 
trained hard and became part of the American Paralympic 
team. At the 2010 winter Paralympics, she became the only
athlete to win gold medals at the summer and winter 
Paralympic Games when she won four medals for skiing: 
two gold, a silver and a bronze. Then, in 2014, she won 
another silver medal at the winter games. 
3.36 Lesson 8G, Exercise 2
Tom
Hi Ryan, it’s Tom. Are you going to watch the 
Olympics on Saturday?