Imagine What We Can Do: Angie Ballard

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Angie Ballard may be softly spoken but her words leave a lasting impact, as will her legacy in the Paralympic movement.

Ballard is in line to compete at her seventh Paralympic Games after making her debut in Sydney in 2000.

It hasn’t been an easy road for the wheelchair sprinter.

“There’s always something hard,” she said.

“I’ve had times where it’s been really, really hard but at least at this time in my career I know that … if you keep working through them often it leads to good things.”

Ballard found her competitive edge in wheelchair racing in 1994, five years after she was injured in a near fatal car accident as a seven-year-old.

Her parents were eager for Angie and her brother, who has spina bifida, to get involved in Para-sport and it did not take long for those around her to realise they were witnessing the rise of a Paralympic star.

Over the course of her journey, Ballard has won eight Paralympic medals and has five World Championship titles.

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