brief silence left someone short
uncomfortable curious gave white that
He forgot how nervous I was going.
come back and be quiet soon
I want to start by telling you that in the last
25 years
I covered sporting events
absolutely fantastic I started to
my career in barcelona almost
chance
completing an Olympiad that is
considered more sensational Olympiad
the legacy that she
left in the city an urban revolution
who goes to Barcelona today still finds
this legacy and by a kind of
self esteem building of spain
at a time when geographically
spain was in europe but in fact
was not in europe was a cousin
poor the spain was making his start
its takeoff towards integration
the European common market
then turned the European Union so
spain to the world is his
new level of greatness using the games
for this after a lapse
of time I went to cover Olympiad of
Beijing
it is an absolutely
fantastic in an exotic city where
we do not have access to information
because anyway they speak Mandarin
Anyway, we do not speak Mandarin.
also with a characteristic
very interesting geopolitics to china
in 2008 is to consolidate its position as
world player in this board right of
economic policy as an economic
increasing and a political system
poor people can even criticize
but China as a military force and as
economic strength at that time in 2008
became a reality for the world.
and she did the Olympics just to
show the world she was
open to him that she could talk
with the West
in a healthy way there
we went to london in 2012 an olympiad
much more familiar with much more landscapes
with the most accessible language
elegant phlegmatic olympic
typically British
I really like to run so I made the
new york marathon I completed four
one and a half hours more gay physics an event
wonderful with 50,000 runners
imagine the logistics to put 50 thousand
people
To run, there’s a queue. The line goes fast.
has more than 150 musical and
on the way
We’re going to run the 42 kilometers in
a Japanese rock drum band
Samba Brazilian I do not know things
Maybe this is why
take so long to arrive because it is
So delicious that you ‘re running in the middle.
of that noise that we want
stop to see the shows instead of
run after I did the port marathon
gay with great pride the desert river
from atacama
I ran in the Chilean Patagonia on the
beach here in the backwater I love to run more
because I’m telling all this so that
so much self-reference, right?
this year Brazil hosted the Olympics
and reversing my logic a little
coverage of major events I
I proposed to the company where I work
in a little different business the request
have to know a little and only the
I do not want bi
Olympic
I’ll stay at home watching on TV as
everybody and I’m going to rio de janeiro
to reach the Paralympics I wanted to
maintain a certain purity in my gaze
who also saw the world cup of
Brazil the sectors the Brazilian national team
of the selection was there on the set is a
so let’s skip this part
quickly go back to the
and the company topou wanted to
maintain a certain virginity of
perception because the Paralympics
are often mistreated
as a by-product of the Olympics already
that we have invested all this money
there to do gym stadium then
after the big stars are
although we will leave the poor ones
use the lipor for ten days because they already
It’s all there anyway, no investment.
already done
we already project a legal image of
social responsibility to the world
so now releases are seen so I
I wanted to break this logic and went to the
River
I got there on a hot night and went to
the paralympic complex and there was my
first shock because a
logic that the logic that people live
in the city because when you arrive at the
Paralympic of the Tikuca Bar and I saw
an unprecedented amount of
disabled people with wheelchair users
of amputees from people with
visual impairment of people with
brain problems very different from
that we observe our city at
people eventually run into
wheelchair at work one
person has a visual impairment
but they are so minorities that they
it is not that they do not
they exist
only they are invisible in the city
they are behind closed doors
being cared for the poorly cared for
institutions and sometimes by families
and sometimes by deposit of beings
that we simply do not
This was my first shock to the
reverse my logic of perception
but it did not last because visibility is
fundamental for us to get used to and
look and a few hours later I was
watching a double tennis match
female tennis player in wheelchair
Imagine when I was going to propose
watch an event of these so exotic
in my repertoire
but I realized then that it is
a very powerful thing happening there
very beautiful when I saw those
belgian and dutch women playing
Wheelchair sneakers I saw
first to play tennis on a chair
wheels is much harder to play than wheels
standing shoes with one hand they go
controlling the chair and which the other
Arm she has to hit the ball.
who plays tennis today watched knows
sometimes the difference of 1 degree in a
racket inclination of the body is
difference between the ball in the
stratosphere and the ball in the
adversary
I was overwhelmed by a deep feeling of
admiration when I saw those
women playing I realized that
time that they are not poor neighbors
they are athletes of the highest level
of very high yield and which
something that is increasingly important in
our society for people to
individuals to cities for companies
will go back a bit in time a bearded
the British who walked here
continent aboard a lord ship
Charles Darwin
one of the most ill-cited
scientists and researchers of history
of humanity everyone says darwin
stated the following the strongest
will survive darwin never said nor has
Until I think I do not know but I never said
nor wrote the thought of giving a
too little even for a
power of a journalism is more
darling said that in fact individuals
species with higher
adaptation will thrive and survive
and that’s what I saw in the Paralympics
Rio de Janeiro, which in fact had to
According to google analytics the largest
peak of interest in the history of
was in rio de janeiro
can anyone dare to say what the
Most searched google sport here at
Brazil, soccer, no, no.
Golbol is the most sought after sport in the
google for Brazilians during the
limit what I’m trying to prove with
interest in the ability to
adaptation as a human quality
it has been growing and it is increasingly
fundamental in this process every
I met a guy without wanting to be corny
here force the bar that has really changed
my life
the name of this guy ricardo alves
ricardinho and a goal from osório and the
8 enjoyed playing football has a
unusual motor intelligence have
until today and at age eight he lost his
sight a very rare detachment thing
retina of two eyes
the grimy with the blind and was a guri
called nozzles and rolling stones and which
I would like to play football because the
Ricardinho will make a living, he’ll tell
that for a bit of fear in a certain
a certain impulse not to hurt the
parents who were watching him suffer
He made a decision at the age of nine I’m going
touch my life
took his blind bike and walked out of
bike in the courtyard of his house
eyes is a big party and he passed
then to recognize the land by the
angle by ripples by the breeze
by the sounds fell fell but children who
generate fell also fell from affection fell
and raised he loved playing football and has
a cousin who must be a very
cool that she was married from time to time
plays with him but it was a very
boring because that cousin came to
ball on the ground and Ricardinho kicked the
cousin was in the goal defended or not
day the cousin arrived at the house of the ricardinho
with a ball wrapped in a bag
supermarket plastic and then gave the
magic
this ball fell to the ground and when the ball
He fell to the ground and realized ricardinho
that he could hear the ball and from
So they started playing soccer with
the ball and wrapped in a plastic bag and
The life of Ricardinho changed because he
started to do what he loved most
Let’s skip the time and let’s go
institute santa luzia in porto alegre
ricardinho has discovered the football of 5
is a Paralympic sport has gone to
to practice and today, the ricardinho the best
player in the world in this modality by the way
the Paralympic champion scored the
brazil’s victory against iran in
latest paralympics
I went to the river watching a game of
soccer of 5 and is a trip in the good
sense because the five players are
blind
the goalkeeper sees and behind the goal has a
guy who keeps giving instructions
what is the challenge of the audience getting
because she only shouts at the
audience is able to take a hefty
because they followed only by sound
and for something they do not know
explain I learned a lot lesson
powerful with ricardinho and he expresses
This in words when we do not have
source of information at the time of
decide on a source of information as
important in terms of vision, we can
choose between two paths sometimes
no choice
but the Ricardinho can choose whether
become a victim of life and
complain or you do not have a source of
information uses another one he started using
your hearing and became a
world example of successful
overcome by doing what he
always dreamed that dream that he
lost the childhood of being a player of the
Brazilian selection he reacquired
after disability with something that
credit as through magical means
but the strength of the individual and the
great adaptability to people
Can you come a little bit now to talk?
of the city
the cities these days are
somehow designed for cars and
not for people
cities and I speak of almost all of them
I know with very few exceptions are
very inclusive and with them they
end up missing the opportunity to
make lighter more fun
creative and fairer
I want here part of a concept that
I find it very interesting that I lived one
year in israel
and there the question of charity is treated
in another way it is inclusive
Biblical concept I’m not a guy
religious but I think the bible
religion can be sources of
very interesting teaching
valuable people stop looking with the
prejudice on which side that people
have in this question that word which
I’ll tell you it ‘s sedaka when the
people went to the supermarket in a bar in
israel in the restaurant a shop has a
It’s a little piggy bank and you write it down.
we translate for charity is not
charity
Sedaka translation is justice or
It’s the difference is that we do not
help the other
to feel better to feel
because the other is poor and the
people are rich and why the other
we have people help we do
for the sake of justice
So no one brags about anyone.
feels superior because helping
simply does include because you have to
do, period
This is a lesson that we can
learn in the planning of our
cities
the cities they end up not listening to the
their silences and that is why
Start here I stayed a little bit
quiet for us to understand and I too
I’ve been getting annoyed with my
own silence that as people
is accustomed to certain
standards and when these standards are
broken
our sense of discomfort and I
I mean, we need more discomfort.
in our city
we need to use our ability to
adaptation to adapt to the
violence does not adapt to the
arroyo deluge this sewage to heaven
open we go through it 30 days a
day already thinking it’s normal
we adapt for the good and for the
evil by external pressure today
we have used this ability much more
adapt to adapt to what has been
we should not adapt but we should
shout out
however we make things quiet
which should cause us to revolt
I act in some
institutions that meet
children who are disabled
deficiency and I each
Once I go in there I discovered a new
world that is not accessible to people
You need to look for this world in this world.
not coming to us
So to conclude that I wanted to leave
for you how to learn all this
is that the city being a space of
inclusion being a generous space
being a colorful and creative space
You are not doing a favor not okay
doing kindness is not a question of
ideology is a matter of justice to
port city london all cities
need more and more to learn to listen
their silences and bother with
they
thank you so much
[Applause]
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