Imagine What We Can Do: Tristan Knowles

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Tristan Knowles knows better than anyone that ‘every single story of success and triumph has adversity in it’.

He was just nine years old when he was diagnosed with bone cancer.

“I was told I would have to start chemotherapy and have my left leg amputated,” Knowles said.

“I got terrible news when I was 11 that they’d found cancer in my lung.

“I turned to my doctor and said what are my chances of surviving and he said ‘50/50’.”

Knowles is now a five-time Paralympian and World Champion in wheelchair basketball, feats the Australian Rollers captain for Paris 2024 attributes to the power of positive thinking.

“My parents and my doctor confessed when I was placed in remission the second time that my chances of surviving were only about 10 percent,” he said.

“That’s probably where it was really sort of highlighted to me, the power of mindset.”

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