Diabetes does not stop you from pursuing your ambitions
Being diabetic might mean a change in lifestyle. It does not mean you will not be able to pursue your career effectively, run a business, practice a sport or realize your ambition.
Here is a sample list of people who have achieved great things. They all have something in common - they all have (had) diabetes. Some managed to win Olympic Gold Medals.
Diabetes will not stop you from becoming a top sportsman or sportswoman, politician, actor/actress, musician, or journalist. If your eating is well planned, if you do plenty of exercise, and adhere to any medication plan your doctor gives you, there is no reason AT ALL why you cannot carry on trying to pursue your lifetime ambitions.
An inspiration!
Sir Steven Redgrave won 5 Olympic Gold medals for rowing and has suffered from Diabetes Type 1 since 1997. Despite being diagnosed with diabetes he continued training hard and won his fifth Olympic Gold in Sydney in 2000. He won the five medals in five consecutive Olympic games:
- 2000 Olympic Gold, Coxless Four (with Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster, James Cracknell)
- 1996 Olympic Gold, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1992 Olympic Gold, Coxless Pair (with Matthew Pinsent)
- 1988 Olympic Gold, Coxless Pair (with Andy Holmes)
- 1988 Olympic Bronze, Coxed Pair (with Andy Holmes and Patrick Sweeney)
- 1984 Olympic Gold, Coxed Four (with Martin Cross, Adrian Ellison, Andy Holmes, Richard Budgett).
Redgrave was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 1992. He also suffers from dyslexia.
Men's coxless four race - Sydney 2000
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