Monday, August 15, 2016

Dmitry Kokarev, Russian swimmer, that were left behind but never forgotten

Meet Dmitry and get in touch with his life story


Photo credit: Xinhua


Dmitry Kokarev (25) russian swimmer. At the age of one the doctors came with a diagnosis - infantile cerebral paralysis. Kid since his early years started swimming. And at the age of 14 he joined Russian Paralympic team. After just one year he amazed the world for winning three gold medals.



An eleven-times champion, he along with the whole Russian Paralympic team was banned for competing and entering the Olympics in Rio 2016 because of the doping scandal regarding Russian Team.

A kid, who from the start of his life had limited opportunities, was doing what he could do best, no matter of his physical condition had been banned from the Paralympics of 2016.

Dmitry in his interviews said, that he’s not discouraged: “After the suspension of our team, we have started to train even more intensively. On the contrary - it made us more angry, started training much harder.”

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