[Music]
life is full of challenges and since
I I can remember I am moved to
challenges and had to break many
barriers delighted I am Andrew
cintra my childhood was one
Very quiet childhood and has great
childhood memories I remember
always in my childhood I was over
a skateboard or on a bicycle
jumping or climbing wall or a tree , and
always my mother was back there
screaming out there is that not going to
hurt care that is dangerous
then a child I always had a lot of
much energy and such a large amount
energy teen eventually
transforming a need very
great to have my own
independence so when I was 16
years and I decided to look for my first
employment
got my first job and since
that moment I had the goal
to be financially independent and
gain independence through
a dream and my dream was to have a bike
17 years I managed to hold my
dream was able to buy my bike
that to me at that moment was my
first major achievement was my
first major victory and and was also
a feeling of incredible freedom
imagine the 17 – year – old may have to
your own bike and freedom to come and
come over
so that for me at that time
It was amazing but one day returning to
home with the same bike
I had an accident
I fell and was sliding down a
sidewalk and twist of fate perhaps
There is a plate
this sidewalk that had a a plate
advertising of a hospital and I hit
this board and when I went up to
pick up the bike I saw that had lost
piece of my leg and my leg
I was about 10 or 12 meters
distance that a guy took my
leg brought up to me and handed me I
I remember that I was being rescued and
looked at my leg and closed the
eyes and spoke that’s a nightmare is a
nightmare nightmare will pass will
pass will go and open the eyes of
nightmare was nothing and closed
again the eyes and a nightmare is a
nightmare will now open your eyes
It was but the nightmare did not pass not
was a nightmare was real life
that day I was amputated below
knee my right leg and woke up
the next day amputated above the knee
the hospital that day I lost a
leg but gained a new life and I had
to make a choice from that
moment or I would sit and cry for
the rest of my life or I get up and
continued walking walking and this was
I decided to take the decision
I got up and continued walking and
it was very important because more or
least about three months after the universe
understanding conspired in favor and me
It led to a super adventure was
invited to a trip to Nepal
this trip is a trip to
Six days rafting rapids
level 5:06
and this trip completely changed my
7 mother because this trip there both
Nepal across the world
after an accident I was there and
I thought if I’m good here three
months after the accident with a leg
level just making tubing 5:06
then I can do anything and
there starts another part of the
career when I went back to Brazil
I started to create my own
prostheses to continue making
sports I’ve ever had to do
other new sports
I am started to create my own
prostheses to make eight board after
to surf katz
I developed various types of
different prostheses played tricks
send the lathe pack
anything after that was another
halfway I lost several
legs on the way to avoid the region
CADIZ of anf lose leg walking
bike board and was part of the process
because every time I lost a leg and
You motivated me to create a better leg
or safer or more rigid or anyway
with a mobility different than remembering
at that time the prostheses
are what they are today in this time was 97
then so there is no proof
specific to sport not
there was specific evidence for water
so I had to learn how to create my
own way of doing prosthesis
then to 21 years called me to life
another challenge perhaps a challenge of
the hardest of my life my father was
an amazing guy a person really
especially a man of example and when I
he was 21 and he was a trip
He had an accident and died
and that day three facts have changed
completely my life the first
fact was that I lost someone I
I loved and loves to this day one
who was my reference was
everything to me
second fact was that at age 21 I had
to take care of a family
until then I had never created at the time
my mother worked no longer I
I had a brother who was 14 years old and
My sister was 11 years old
then 21 usually when a
boy’re not even prepared to
sustain yourself
does not even yet informed the
responsibility and called me a
differently and I had to learn
which is putting money at home at 21
years
so that to me was quite
different at that stage and the third fact
was the fact that my father at the time of
a company
50 percent of a company I inherited
that 50% of the company and my father had a
partner with the other 50% and that partner
when my father died he asked me for a
attorney with broad powers to
run the company because it was too young
and this power of attorney was given to him and
so he directed the company during
next two years
and 23 years to life calls me by a
another completely different challenge
because when he was the city and discover
that he had set up a partner
another company competing with our
our money without us know then
that was when I had to
take over the family business in
rather difficult condition one
very hard financial condition
at the time we had 101 protests
three applications for bankruptcy and some
million debt and I had no
idea what was a company I
I remember that at the time the lawyer arrived
me and spoke like Andrew
Now you discount the duplicates and will
playing in the company and I turned him
was thus duplicate the same doctor
he put his hand to his forehead and spoke putz
screwed up this kid does not know what is
a duplicate as it will direct a
company but I always wanted
I was always curious and always had a lot of
desire to learn
but what I think saved me even
was my innocence because this
when I searched all
suppliers they called and contains
truth to them and spoke to them
suppliers I need three things
the first thing I need is to know
as I should I do not know how I should
so please be true
The second thing I need is I
I will pay everyone but I can not
pay interest
so please do not cover me interest and
third thing I need you
let me live that is if you me
provided a huge amount of
raw material and packaging sends me
a little bit of everything a little
that 50 kilograms this raw material 30
kilograms of the other so I can stay
stay alive and continues the company and so
was made
I remember that
a black notebook and I scored all
suppliers that I should
book and I received at that time
1500 and 2000 real per day in the company and
I deposited those provided by
Hundred actual real suppliers to 1 150
To the other
two hundred reais to the other and I
I remember them the next day many
sometimes they denied furious and spoke well
how you are too loose you
I should not know how many thousands of
real
and you send me 150 real and I
responded good but we did not match
I was going to pay what I have for today
and tomorrow pay a little more and it
in a way it created an empathy
It is not a sensitivity in
suppliers and they began to think
how good this kid has no money
but he has good will and this in a
somehow much it helped the company
people were recovering the company
able to pay everyone was learning
really was studying business
to understand how a company
the company was surviving was growing
and today is a company that has a lot more
employee is very successful in
market 15 years later it is completely
different than it was the company I
I got back there and during all this is
another very important challenge in
my life my mother was a woman
wonderful amazing it had a
very strong connection with my father I think
that when my father died she
feel a huge emptiness and when I
was 26 we found that
my mother had cancer and few
days later she died
and once again I saw that lost a
very hard leg but lost people
we love is much more difficult
and then at 28 life made another
turn invited me to another
challenge
at that time I already rode a kart 7 is
long time and I always wanted to
snowboarding and had made two
snowboarding experiences and the two
very frustrated because I had gone to
snow and I had not managed to stay
right foot because I had no proof
specific to snowboarding and these
twice I went back to Brazil
finished doing a specific test
for snowboarding but was in
run working hard not
able to do but then came the
opportunity to go to the states
United
and I was in the United States one
person told me that looks have a guy
tava that the war returned from the war
He returned and counted them in and he Borderô
He made a specific prosthesis by board
I was in California the company this
guy was in Utah
I called the company a girl me
He answered and said to me so I asked
the speech itself looks if you want
prosthesis has no problem you coming
here is there
after a week with us and we
tests the freer title
the area was so look I do not have a
week I return to Brazil in two days
so I would like you to spend your
credit card and send me the
It owns the mail and she laughed and said
you guy’s crazy no one buys a
proof by mail but that decision was
very important because this decision
completely changed my life it
sent by mail after itself
I arrived I went back to Brazil and then
that I started to snowboard
truth
shortly after a while and then there’s the cpb
cbn to the snow committee was
looking for someone to try a
spot in winter Paralympic Games
Then I was invited to make a
proof
I went to this evidence by chance that
proof was with broken arm
head taking a sling to anyone
see who was with the broken arm did
the race with broken arm after
beat can decide and left
but that decision was also very
important because it changed
completely my life too
because I passed that test then the CBDN
He invited me to be an athlete
then they sent me in the states
united to train I walked in
world championships
then yes I learned what it was to be a
High performance athlete athlete
High performance it does not work with
the 2nd
the high-performance athlete works
with milliseconds the difference
It has a gold medal and you be
disqualified in snowboarding are
milliseconds
then planning the committee
had to classify was Brazil
Early in four years
and I was the first athlete to rank
Brazil for one for olympics
winter in history and when I got in
Olympics I had no
idea what the Olympics did not
idea of the magnitude that was Olympics
I had no idea that I may be assisted
by thousands
I had no idea what would be the next
the best athletes in the world means
my only really hit me when
was there right
just to give you an idea for
Winter Olympics she is assisted
by about 3 billion people
around the planet so mean
a truly magnificent event and was good
very interesting that at the entrance of
opening ceremony a little
before the entrance
I was waiting to get in and
I received information that also
was very interesting was pretty cool
President of CBDN came up to me and
says this looks since you were the
first athlete to rank Brazil
then you will take the flag you
Brazil will be the flag bearer in
entrance and this was one of the days more
exciting of my life is not to take
the Brazil flag to wield power
the honor of carrying the flag of Brazil
in the Olympics and I think this was a
great victory for me
and here is a video about the
olympics
[Music]
this was another day also quite
important for the title was the day of
final competition
and that day I carried some
drops cans each shoulder
[Music]
I was a little nervous at first
descent and fumbled quite
I saw the best athletes and falling
best are falling because really
a difficult thing
[Music]
[Music]
I think this order has a special reason
because when I lost my leg and my
father was very ill and I would love
he had to see it all
because he deserved both he and
my mother is here to see
what happened so many years later is
because at that time was very
worried that did not have a life
[Music]
Normal good and now many years later
It is like the best places in the world
[Applause]
life is a great adventure and of course the
adventures continue
recently we made a
documentary channel called off the hubs
finally a documentary and a book 600km
kite surfing being pulled by the wind with
a board foot
seven days were coming out and going ceará
even the sheets in Maranhão
maranhão
means yet another adventure
amazing and my next big
challenge is to classify
Brazil for the next games
Winter Paralympics in Korea’s
South next year
[Music]
and that day I suffered the accident
someone had told me that one day I would
be a high performance athlete and
day I would go to the Olympics one day would
carry the flag of Brazil
I would never have believed
then I believe in themselves we are
much stronger much more powerful
we think
the mind tells the body obeys
thank you so much
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
life is full of challenges and since
I I can remember I am moved to
challenges and had to break many
barriers delighted I am Andrew
cintra my childhood was one
Very quiet childhood and has great
childhood memories I remember
always in my childhood I was over
a skateboard or on a bicycle
jumping or climbing wall or a tree , and
always my mother was back there
screaming out there is that not going to
hurt care that is dangerous
then a child I always had a lot of
much energy and such a large amount
energy teen eventually
transforming a need very
great to have my own
independence so when I was 16
years and I decided to look for my first
employment
got my first job and since
that moment I had the goal
to be financially independent and
gain independence through
a dream and my dream was to have a bike
17 years I managed to hold my
dream was able to buy my bike
that to me at that moment was my
first major achievement was my
first major victory and and was also
a feeling of incredible freedom
imagine the 17 – year – old may have to
your own bike and freedom to come and
come over
so that for me at that time
It was amazing but one day returning to
home with the same bike
I had an accident
I fell and was sliding down a
sidewalk and twist of fate perhaps
There is a plate
this sidewalk that had a a plate
advertising of a hospital and I hit
this board and when I went up to
pick up the bike I saw that had lost
piece of my leg and my leg
I was about 10 or 12 meters
distance that a guy took my
leg brought up to me and handed me I
I remember that I was being rescued and
looked at my leg and closed the
eyes and spoke that’s a nightmare is a
nightmare nightmare will pass will
pass will go and open the eyes of
nightmare was nothing and closed
again the eyes and a nightmare is a
nightmare will now open your eyes
It was but the nightmare did not pass not
was a nightmare was real life
that day I was amputated below
knee my right leg and woke up
the next day amputated above the knee
the hospital that day I lost a
leg but gained a new life and I had
to make a choice from that
moment or I would sit and cry for
the rest of my life or I get up and
continued walking walking and this was
I decided to take the decision
I got up and continued walking and
it was very important because more or
least about three months after the universe
understanding conspired in favor and me
It led to a super adventure was
invited to a trip to Nepal
this trip is a trip to
Six days rafting rapids
level 5:06
and this trip completely changed my
7 mother because this trip there both
Nepal across the world
after an accident I was there and
I thought if I’m good here three
months after the accident with a leg
level just making tubing 5:06
then I can do anything and
there starts another part of the
career when I went back to Brazil
I started to create my own
prostheses to continue making
sports I’ve ever had to do
other new sports
I am started to create my own
prostheses to make eight board after
to surf katz
I developed various types of
different prostheses played tricks
send the lathe pack
anything after that was another
halfway I lost several
legs on the way to avoid the region
CADIZ of anf lose leg walking
bike board and was part of the process
because every time I lost a leg and
You motivated me to create a better leg
or safer or more rigid or anyway
with a mobility different than remembering
at that time the prostheses
are what they are today in this time was 97
then so there is no proof
specific to sport not
there was specific evidence for water
so I had to learn how to create my
own way of doing prosthesis
then to 21 years called me to life
another challenge perhaps a challenge of
the hardest of my life my father was
an amazing guy a person really
especially a man of example and when I
he was 21 and he was a trip
He had an accident and died
and that day three facts have changed
completely my life the first
fact was that I lost someone I
I loved and loves to this day one
who was my reference was
everything to me
second fact was that at age 21 I had
to take care of a family
until then I had never created at the time
my mother worked no longer I
I had a brother who was 14 years old and
My sister was 11 years old
then 21 usually when a
boy’re not even prepared to
sustain yourself
does not even yet informed the
responsibility and called me a
differently and I had to learn
which is putting money at home at 21
years
so that to me was quite
different at that stage and the third fact
was the fact that my father at the time of
a company
50 percent of a company I inherited
that 50% of the company and my father had a
partner with the other 50% and that partner
when my father died he asked me for a
attorney with broad powers to
run the company because it was too young
and this power of attorney was given to him and
so he directed the company during
next two years
and 23 years to life calls me by a
another completely different challenge
because when he was the city and discover
that he had set up a partner
another company competing with our
our money without us know then
that was when I had to
take over the family business in
rather difficult condition one
very hard financial condition
at the time we had 101 protests
three applications for bankruptcy and some
million debt and I had no
idea what was a company I
I remember that at the time the lawyer arrived
me and spoke like Andrew
Now you discount the duplicates and will
playing in the company and I turned him
was thus duplicate the same doctor
he put his hand to his forehead and spoke putz
screwed up this kid does not know what is
a duplicate as it will direct a
company but I always wanted
I was always curious and always had a lot of
desire to learn
but what I think saved me even
was my innocence because this
when I searched all
suppliers they called and contains
truth to them and spoke to them
suppliers I need three things
the first thing I need is to know
as I should I do not know how I should
so please be true
The second thing I need is I
I will pay everyone but I can not
pay interest
so please do not cover me interest and
third thing I need you
let me live that is if you me
provided a huge amount of
raw material and packaging sends me
a little bit of everything a little
that 50 kilograms this raw material 30
kilograms of the other so I can stay
stay alive and continues the company and so
was made
I remember that
a black notebook and I scored all
suppliers that I should
book and I received at that time
1500 and 2000 real per day in the company and
I deposited those provided by
Hundred actual real suppliers to 1 150
To the other
two hundred reais to the other and I
I remember them the next day many
sometimes they denied furious and spoke well
how you are too loose you
I should not know how many thousands of
real
and you send me 150 real and I
responded good but we did not match
I was going to pay what I have for today
and tomorrow pay a little more and it
in a way it created an empathy
It is not a sensitivity in
suppliers and they began to think
how good this kid has no money
but he has good will and this in a
somehow much it helped the company
people were recovering the company
able to pay everyone was learning
really was studying business
to understand how a company
the company was surviving was growing
and today is a company that has a lot more
employee is very successful in
market 15 years later it is completely
different than it was the company I
I got back there and during all this is
another very important challenge in
my life my mother was a woman
wonderful amazing it had a
very strong connection with my father I think
that when my father died she
feel a huge emptiness and when I
was 26 we found that
my mother had cancer and few
days later she died
and once again I saw that lost a
very hard leg but lost people
we love is much more difficult
and then at 28 life made another
turn invited me to another
challenge
at that time I already rode a kart 7 is
long time and I always wanted to
snowboarding and had made two
snowboarding experiences and the two
very frustrated because I had gone to
snow and I had not managed to stay
right foot because I had no proof
specific to snowboarding and these
twice I went back to Brazil
finished doing a specific test
for snowboarding but was in
run working hard not
able to do but then came the
opportunity to go to the states
United
and I was in the United States one
person told me that looks have a guy
tava that the war returned from the war
He returned and counted them in and he Borderô
He made a specific prosthesis by board
I was in California the company this
guy was in Utah
I called the company a girl me
He answered and said to me so I asked
the speech itself looks if you want
prosthesis has no problem you coming
here is there
after a week with us and we
tests the freer title
the area was so look I do not have a
week I return to Brazil in two days
so I would like you to spend your
credit card and send me the
It owns the mail and she laughed and said
you guy’s crazy no one buys a
proof by mail but that decision was
very important because this decision
completely changed my life it
sent by mail after itself
I arrived I went back to Brazil and then
that I started to snowboard
truth
shortly after a while and then there’s the cpb
cbn to the snow committee was
looking for someone to try a
spot in winter Paralympic Games
Then I was invited to make a
proof
I went to this evidence by chance that
proof was with broken arm
head taking a sling to anyone
see who was with the broken arm did
the race with broken arm after
beat can decide and left
but that decision was also very
important because it changed
completely my life too
because I passed that test then the CBDN
He invited me to be an athlete
then they sent me in the states
united to train I walked in
world championships
then yes I learned what it was to be a
High performance athlete athlete
High performance it does not work with
the 2nd
the high-performance athlete works
with milliseconds the difference
It has a gold medal and you be
disqualified in snowboarding are
milliseconds
then planning the committee
had to classify was Brazil
Early in four years
and I was the first athlete to rank
Brazil for one for olympics
winter in history and when I got in
Olympics I had no
idea what the Olympics did not
idea of the magnitude that was Olympics
I had no idea that I may be assisted
by thousands
I had no idea what would be the next
the best athletes in the world means
my only really hit me when
was there right
just to give you an idea for
Winter Olympics she is assisted
by about 3 billion people
around the planet so mean
a truly magnificent event and was good
very interesting that at the entrance of
opening ceremony a little
before the entrance
I was waiting to get in and
I received information that also
was very interesting was pretty cool
President of CBDN came up to me and
says this looks since you were the
first athlete to rank Brazil
then you will take the flag you
Brazil will be the flag bearer in
entrance and this was one of the days more
exciting of my life is not to take
the Brazil flag to wield power
the honor of carrying the flag of Brazil
in the Olympics and I think this was a
great victory for me
and here is a video about the
olympics
[Music]
this was another day also quite
important for the title was the day of
final competition
and that day I carried some
drops cans each shoulder
[Music]
I was a little nervous at first
descent and fumbled quite
I saw the best athletes and falling
best are falling because really
a difficult thing
[Music]
[Music]
I think this order has a special reason
because when I lost my leg and my
father was very ill and I would love
he had to see it all
because he deserved both he and
my mother is here to see
what happened so many years later is
because at that time was very
worried that did not have a life
[Music]
Normal good and now many years later
It is like the best places in the world
[Applause]
life is a great adventure and of course the
adventures continue
recently we made a
documentary channel called off the hubs
finally a documentary and a book 600km
kite surfing being pulled by the wind with
a board foot
seven days were coming out and going ceará
even the sheets in Maranhão
maranhão
means yet another adventure
amazing and my next big
challenge is to classify
Brazil for the next games
Winter Paralympics in Korea’s
South next year
[Music]
and that day I suffered the accident
someone had told me that one day I would
be a high performance athlete and
day I would go to the Olympics one day would
carry the flag of Brazil
I would never have believed
then I believe in themselves we are
much stronger much more powerful
we think
the mind tells the body obeys
thank you so much
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
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