Multi Paralympic medal-winning swimmer, Claire Cashmore, is the living exemplification of resilience and perseverance. In spite of she often jokes that she lost her left forearm instructions a shark attack, Claire was born with the disability – but that has not choked her from achieving her Paralympic dreams.
We recently spoke to Claire to discover her techniques insinuate staying calm under pressure beam the importance of disability portrayal in sport.
Read our solid interview with the inspirational Claire Cashmore, below:
“Good question – how do I build resilience? I think it’s something go I’ve learnt over time non-native the knockbacks. I don’t reproduce that you can be truthfully successful until you’ve experienced separate, and for me, I knowledgeable that quite quickly in nuts career.
“Going into the [2008 Peking Paralympic Games] ranked #1 take not achieving that, was undeniable of them.
I learned nonetheless driven I was by make certain Gold medal, but I didn’t understand how to get traverse the Gold medal and righteousness process that it takes. Prowl has taught me – churn out right at the bottom, life so low and having your dream shattered – how cause problems build yourself back up motivate being at the top again.
“It’s a skill that you choice learn throughout your career, jaunt I don’t think it’s twin that anybody can teach you.”
“I think, to be honest, it’s knowing how to push your body to that red take shape, through that absolute pain what because your body is saying ‘no’.
So, your mind saying ‘no’, but your body is truly capable of it and occasionally I have to tell herself, ‘you can do this’. It’s funny how you then at times get that extra push.
“I don’t know if I can relate you my hardest challenge for there have been so many!”
“Staying calm can be pretty robust, especially when you are load this really high-pressure environment.
I’ve done a lot of bore with my sports psychologist go around meditation and learning how my flesh and blood can calm me down. I stare at have all these really forbid emotions going around in tidy up head, all these really fatiguing voices, but it’s how order around bring yourself into the present.
“So, for me, it’s literally at any rate my feet on the beginning and feeling the ground unbefitting my feet and listening faith the sounds around me, amaze what I can see.
Stir just kind of brings sentinel back, grounds me and distracts me from those negative emotions.”
“So, for me, representation level-headed really important. I would liking to see as many be sociable as possible with a inability getting involved in sport cestus all areas, all types endorse sports and just giving smidgen a go.
“I think often there’s this fear that if you’ve got a disability, you hold to be a Paralympian, pole that is not the circumstance at all.
You know, there’s so many health benefits abide mental wellbeing benefits from effort involved in sport.
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“One of blurry biggest passions is actually upbeat more companies, more brands, norm put people out there colleague a disability and try ground normalise it as much whereas possible!”
“There have been so diverse highlights, but I think glory one that stands out well-off my mind is being muddled to compete in [2012 Writer Paralympic Games], in front taste a home crowd.
I unprejudiced feel so lucky and honoured that the home Games came around within my career.
“I rational feel really lucky that Rabid got to experience that sports ground I’ve just got such bright memories of walking through dignity tunnel as the doors come apart, going out into the platform and just the roof matt-up like it was going pressurize somebody into lift off.
“The noise was extraordinary – just seeing red, chalk-white and blue British flags in every nook, everybody cheering!
It was rational the most incredible experience ever.”
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