# @paralympics on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CmrImMeokQ2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17096764-paralympics-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-12-27T14:00:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Paralympic Games (@Paralympics) — https://gondola.cc/Paralympics

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International Days in the calendar! 🎉

It is always important to recognise these moments across the year. From Pride Month to Refugee Day to Day of Disability.

1) Tweet reads: For World Refugee Day, we catch up with Abbas Karimi, a refugee from Aghanistan, who for the first time last week represented TeamUSA at the Para_Swimming World Champs.

2) Tweet reads: "We fall in love, we break up, we get married, just like everybody else" - disabilty is not inability. Veronica Plebani, triathlete in Tokyo 2020, Kayaker in Rio 2016, Snowboarder in Sochi 2014. veronicayoko 

3) Tweet reads: "It's only now I can see the importance of telling my story and being visible in order to open the sport up to more people". robynlambird the first non-binary athlete to win a medal at the Paralympics.

4) Tweet reads: "Sport is a way to connect people." Paralympic medallist and world champion Moran Samuel found in sport "a saviour, the place where no one is judging who I am". moran_samuel_paralympic 

5) Tweet reads: "Sport has been a great plaform for me to be who I am". sirleepearson is not only a legend in #ParaEquestrian, but also a voice of comfort for thise struggling to be open with their sexuality. 

6) Tweet reads: Sport can change lives. Let's celebrate the International Day of Sport For Development and Peace.

#Paralympics #Twitter #Pride #RefugeeDay #ChangeStartsWithSport

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paralympics, paraequestrian, twitter, refugeeday, changestartswithsport, pride

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