Surrey amputee on the Winter Paralympics: "I really do think it brings the best out of people."
Billy Monger, who raced as a formula 4 driver before losing both his legs in a near fatal crash spoke to us ahead of the Winter Paralympics, which begin later today (March 4)
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A Surrey man who lost both his legs in a racing accident has told us about the importance of the Paralympics
Billy Monger, who lost both his legs in a Formula 4 accident in 2017, will be doing commentary at the Milan Paralympics which start later today
He told us about why the games can be so important for those effected by serious injuries
"I think sport is a really powerful thing. I think for Paralympians, a lot of them probably have sort of stumbled across sport in some way or another as a form of recovery and allowing them to distract themselves probably in a way from the complexities and challenges that they've got on the day-to-day basis
I think sport has that power for lots of people and once you get into sport and you know, potentially if they've discovered it through their recovery process, I can see why you would then want to just keep doing sport because it I really do think it brings the best out of people.
It allows them to excel in other areas of their life, and I think the Paralympics is just a display of that."
Billy also spoke to us about how excited he was to be on commentary at the games
"I think we've all been able to catch up on a lot of the action from the Winter Olympics that's just gone.
I feel like everyone I've been talking to has seen some form of winter sport that maybe they've not seen before and they're kind of getting a bit more understanding of that world.
So for me to go out and sort of be involved in the Winter Paralympics coming up and hopefully build off the back of that and bring people lots of great entertainment and action and that's something that I'm really privileged to be a part of"
Billy told us the two events he was looking forward to most were the alpine skiing and the biathlon.
Billy has done commentary for the last 3 paralympic games, including these current winter games, however he aims to take part as an athlete in two years time in the triathlon