Posted on 02/14/2023 4:57:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
Natalie Curtis, who suffered with spina bifida and was a member of Australia's wheelchair basketball squad before the delayed 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, has died aged 34
Australian Paralympian Natalie Curtis has died suddenly at the age of 34.
The basketball player was a member of Australia's wheelchair basketball squad ahead of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where the Aussies missed out on a medal. She was also renowned for raising awareness of disability sports and athletes.
Curtis died on February 5 but the cause of death is not yet known. The tragic news was confirmed on Facebook by her sister Emma, who posted: “If you knew Natalie, you would know she was the most beautiful, kind and talented person. She was a daughter, a sister, an auntie and a mother to a beautiful little boy."
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Paralympics faces calls for Down's syndrome category to ensure level playing field Curtis was born with spina bifida but it didn't curtail her involvement in sport, and her sibling added: “Everyone who knew her loved her instantly, she had such a kind soul and would do anything for the people she cared for most.”
The star had to overcome adversity in her career, with another sister drowning at a young age. She took up basketball as a teenager and in 2013 won silver with Australia at the 2013 Japan Oceania Championships, but shortly afterwards suffered multiple spinal fractures in a car accident.
She hit the headlines last October when she had to crawl off a Jetstar flight because the airline failed to provide her with an aisle wheelchair on landing. The Townsville star later described the experience as "humiliating."
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My bad. Not sure what I did.
LOL
So much effort!
RIP young lady. You did the disability and wheelchair community proud.
Stinking post. Take it elsewhere.
Your rush to mock the died suddenly members of FR interrupted you suddenly with the titled butchered.
Likely premature vaxx death Placemarker
Amazing how quickly you can post to these threads. It’s as if suddenly there is a disturbance in the force and then you’re here. You and Nick start and silence the topic. Good job you two. Cash that big tech FIBCDC check. If you’re gaslighting your fellow freepers for free then it’s just a shame and shows your character. |
Not safe but effective.
If one’s body contains gelatinous blot clots due to the clot shot, they are sure to present a greater danger due to one’s immobility from being in a wheelchair.
I’m so old I can remember when we knew what people died from.
And to be surprised by a death.
Now, it is every single day, young people, healthy people... children..
Can’t say.... can’t say.
She had a Twin.
They both died.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s bioweapon takes another? Suddenly?
Listen to Bourla’s answers to pointed questions by the press:
https://rumble.com/v265v7y—rebel-news-confronts-albert-bourla-in-davos-over-the-safety-and-efficacy-o.html
See tag.
FJB
This is by design. It is mass genocide.
You don’t say? You don’t say?
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