Watching the opening ceremony of the Sydney Paralympics at the age of three, Tom O’Neill-Thorne knew he wanted to make it there one day himself. “One of the athletes was in a wheelchair and he got out and he started doing a handstand … he started handstand walking around the track,” he says. O’Neill-Thorne was born with arthrogryposis, a pre-birth condition that prevented growth of his hips, knees and ankles. Now a professional wheelchair basketballer who won a world cup with Australia at 17 and represented the country at two paralympic games, he believes that moment broadcast from Sydney has resonated throughout his life. “It connects with me, especially at that time where that was what I
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