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The Real Thing

40 EpisodesProduced by ABC RadioWebsite

The Real Thing celebrates unique Australian characters.

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#3: Run like a cheetah

Lisa Llorens is one of Australia’s most decorated Paralympians with six medals across track and field events.

She was dubbed ‘the cheetah’ because she loves cats and was fast on the track.

But everything changed after the Sydney 2000 games when the intellectually disabled category was banned.

The chain of events that followed forced Lisa to reinvent herself.

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